Reviews
The Rough Guide to African Guitar Legends
After a recent spate of successes in the Indian department (the revisited Rough Guides to Bhangra, Bollywood and Music of...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Dougna
A former singer with the Guinean all female band Les Amazones de Guinée, Sayon Bamba certainly doesn’t lack spirit. She’s...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Beyond the Trance
Iness Mezel's third album kicks off with the kind of Justin Adams guitar riff you'd find him using as Robert...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Human
You can never take away from Clegg his brave role as a white Jewish musician in apartheid South Africa, fronting...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Salulandela
Back in the late 1980s, the tight, chirpy hits of pop-fusion outfit Ilanga were a staple of Zimbabwean radio. The...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Ishumar 2: New Tuareg Guitars
The second post-Tinariwen compilation of Touareg bands from Mali, Niger and Algeria promises to point out ‘new directions’ in the...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Something is Wrong – Vintage Recordings From East Africa
In days gone by, you might have expected to find this kind of compilation released on a more specialist label...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Kwenge
Kareyce Fotso is an African renaissance woman. A bio–chemistry graduate with a diploma in broadcasting and photography, the Cameroonian singer...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
