Reviews
Bled Memory
I often wish reviewers would appraise albums on the basis of what they actually are rather than what they want...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
African Homeland: Voices & Rhythms From Zimbabwe and Southern Africa
We're no doubt going to be hearing a lot of music from South Africa in the run-up to the soccer...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Shalom Salam
Senegalese reggae singer Niominka Bi, whose name means ‘the fisherman’ in the Wolof language, has been around on the French...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Kassa
We first heard Mali’s Adama Yalomba on the 2003 Festival au Desert compilation. Then the trail went cold again. Kassa...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Tarkat Tajje – Let’s Go
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 is the most famous living, breathing exponent of Algerian Gnawa, that raw and rolling Afro-Berber trance music...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
La Différence
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
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
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
