Reviews
Number One Bus
Dressed in griot-chic and wielding his gimbri like a Fender Stratocaster, Nuru Kane comes on like a trans-Saharan cross between...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Ayobaness! The Sound of South African House
‘This is the new Africa,’ declares the liner notes. But it isn't really. House music has been thudding out of...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Memories of John
The many former colleagues and fans of the late bluegrass fiddler, banjoist and songwriter John Hartford needed no persuading to...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Ar Puro
The music of Guinea-Bissau – a tiny wedge of mangroves and jungle hidden between the borders of Senegal and Guinea...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Dakar-Kingston
Baaba Maal claimed many years ago that the reggae rhythm was derived from the hypnotic, centuries-old sound of West African...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Café Musique
A kind of one-man Cape Verdean chamber group, Rufino Almeida (also known as Bau), has plucked a steady course through...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Secretly Famous
This is a Western¬er’s image of Cairo and its mythical fleshpots: snake-charmer music for young Euro-clubbers en route to the...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Ar De Nha Terra
A veteran singer-songwriter old enough to remember independence from Portugal, Paris-based Cape Verdean Jorge Humberto has a reputation as a...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Chants Berbères de Kabylie
In the middle part of the 20th century, pioneering poets, writers and singers rediscovered micro¬cosms of traditional culture that had...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
