Amkoullel's Mali is a little different to the West African country of koras and calabashes, Toumanis and Djelimadys, percussion ensembles,...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
The Gambian kora player Amadou Bansang Jobarteh awoke many Western listeners to African music two decades ago, and now Dawda,...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Billed as the new soul voice of Cameroon, Blick Bassy is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and percussionist whose Bassa-language solo debut...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Whether it's the folk of Madredeus, the samba of Chico Buarque or the manifold rhythms and cadences of Lusitanian Africa,...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
As readers of Songlines probably know, Latin music was re-Africanised after World War II when wind-up phonographs made it to...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Just when you thought Mali couldn't possibly produce any more extraordinary new musical stars, here's another. Born in the Ivory...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Born and raised in Cameroon half a century ago, but resident in France for the last couple of decades, Tchakounté's...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
On a first listen to this debut album from Nottingham-based Gambian musician Sura Susso, the word that kept coming to...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
‘Sorry’? The unusual first name is probably an Anglicisation of ‘Sorhy,’ which is itself a twisted version of the common...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
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