Reviews
Egypt Noir
The idea behind this album is to present the music of the Africans from the deserts that encompass most of...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Things That Fly
If you like peppery banjo picking and close male harmonies – and you should if you're a bluegrass fan –...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Ghana Funk from the 70s
Ghana, like Benin, might not have had a Fela Kuti or a Hugh Masekela, but it always had the funk....
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Bride of the Zar
Rango is the name of a wooden xylophone and of a tradition that stretches back to Sudanese tribal culture, to...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Mulatu Steps Ahead
An influential star of the golden age of Ethiopian popular music, Mulatu Astatke was also the first African student at...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
The Rough Guide to Arabic Lounge
Lounge – it's a tricky old concept. ‘Mood music that evoked exotic elsewheres’ is how the liner notes define its...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Ililta! New Ethiopian Dance Music
You could be forgiven for presuming that, such is the Éthiopiques-fuelled fascination for Ethiopian music from the 1960s and 70s,...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Assume Crash Position
Five years after Konono No 1's astonishing debut, the feral sound of their junkyard sonics and distorted, hypnotic grooves sounds...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Deli
This second album fro m Burkinabé guitarist Victor Démé is a brave and experimental release from a man who went...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Protegid
Carmen Souza may share a Creole tongue with her Cape Verdean-rooted contemporaries, but that's where the comparisons end. Her voice...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
