Reviews

Tarkat Tajje – Let’s Go

Etran Finatawa

Our education in the music of the nomadic peoples of the Sahara has advanced rapidly in the years since Tinariwen...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010

Smaa Smaa

Hasna El Becharia

Hasna El Becharia is the most famous living, breathing exponent of Algerian Gnawa, that raw and rolling Afro-Berber trance music...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010

Adagh

Tamikrest

The Beatles begot numerous generations of groups and 30 years after they broke up, the likes of Oasis were still...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010

La Différence

Salif Keita

Salif Keita’s record company are claiming La Différence is the ‘third chapter of an acoustic trilogy’, following his two wonderful...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010

Nigeria Afrobeat Special: The New Explosive Sound in 1970s Nigeria

VARIOUS ARTISTS

One of the great things to happen musically in the post–civil war Nigeria of the 1970s was the birth and...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010

Rappel á I’Ordre

Takana Zion

The African reggae market is well stocked with artists such as Tiken Jah Fakoly and Alpha Blondy, who regularly draw...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010

Éthiopiques 24: Golden Years of Ethiopian Music 1969-1975

VARIOUS ARTISTS

If the news that there are two new volumes of the magnificent, hugely influential and spectacularly long– running Ethiopiques series...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010

Nigeria Special Volume 2: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds and Nigerian Blues 1970-6

VARIOUS ARTISTS

When the Nigerian civil war ended in 1970, a period of experimentation and musical freedom ensued, producing some rich and...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010

Soweto

Next Stop…

This is an album of ‘township sounds from the golden era of mbaqanga’ –a reminder of the rousing dance music...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010

Nkolo

Lokua Kanza

Pascal ‘Lokua’ Kanza has roots in Congo–Kinshasa and Rwanda, two nations afflicted by the greatest contemporary tragedies Africa has known....

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010