Reviews
Les Percussions de Guinée Vols 1 & 2
A welcome reissue of the two classics from Guinea's national supergroup, this was assembled to promote Guinean culture on the...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Kachupada
With Verdade, her 2010 release, Carmen Souza introduced herself to the world as a kind of Cape Verdean Diana Krall....
Reviewed in issue June/2026
The Griot's Craft
The previous solo album from the Bembeya Jazz/Africando singer and voice of Guinea to receive an international release was Sinikan,...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Jama Ko
To these ears, the best track on Bassekou Kouyaté's splendid 2006 solo debut Segu Blue was ‘Banani’, a dirty, low-down...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Plays Vasco Martins
Bau has been a behind-the-scenes stalwart of Cape Verdean music ever since Cesaria Evora first put the islands on the...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Anthologie
An energetic and multi-talented singer and lutenist, Lili Boniche was born in the Jewish sector of the Algiers Casbah in1921...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Deep Africa
Back in the 90s, Eric Mouquet and his French ‘ethnic electronica collective’ Deep Forest did more than anyone else to...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
At Peace
Like Toumani Diabaté, Ballaké Sissoko is kora royalty. Around the same age, they are both sons of Malian griot kora...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Solonaïves/Sculptures with GAD
Solo Razafindrakoto (aka Solorazaf) is a guitarist from Madagascar. This album confirms that he is an absolute master. The first...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Seben Steps to Heaven
Formed in Yorkshire and now based in London, Congo Dia Ntotila is comprised of a mixture of African (mostly Congolese)...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
