Reviews
Afro-Latin: Via Dakar
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
Fatou
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
Blues Menessen
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
Sila Kang
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
Volume One 1970-1979
‘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
Tewesta: Remembrance
On the surface there’s not a great deal to dislike about Tewesta (Remembrance), a new recording fronted by guitarist Girum...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
University of Gnawa
Aziz Sahmaoui is a marakchi – not a broad-brimmed crooner of Mexican love songs, but a native of Marrakech in...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
MeStissage
Teofilo Chantre was one of the first of the new wave of Cape Verdean singer-songwriters to depart from strict tradition,...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
The First Album
The first two releases in Analog Africa’s new ‘limited dance edition’ series move on from the label’s splendid compilation releases,...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
