Reviews
Kel Tinariwen
You know Tinariwen. Hypnotic Touareg assouf music from bluesy electric guitars, slithering out of Saharan sand-encrusted amps and accompanied by...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2023
Balka Sound
A rare vinyl copy of Balka Sound’s 1984 album Afro Musik Creation is currently on offer at $275 on the...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2023
Ukubonga
Lorraine Klaasen & Mongezi Ntaka
It was astonishing how quickly the resistance music of the townships – The Indestructible Beat of Soweto, as it was memorably...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2023
Yoruba Odyssey
In recent years Nigerian music has become synonymous with the globalised Afrobeats of the likes of Burna Boy and Wizkid....
Reviewed in issue January/February/2023
Afro Funk
When the former French colony of Dahomey gained its independence in 1960, it launched a surge of artistic creativity in...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2023
Hope
Soweto Gospel Choir have hit on a winning formula that has brought them three Grammys and performances before president Obama...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
$/He Who Feeds You…Owns You
In a terrific transition from the protest music of their last album, Tolika Mtoliki, The Brother Moves On's fourth record...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Badinyaa Kumoo
Long respected as the first internationally successful female kora player, it is more than a decade since Sona Jobarteh's last...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Roi Du Ziglibithy
This reissue collects four tracks by Ernesto Djédjé, the guitarist from Ivory Coast who made his first singles in Paris,...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
N’Djila Wa Mudujimu
Lady Aicha & Pisco Crane''s Original Fulu Miziki Band of Kinshasa
This is the DIY eco-punk essence, Congo-style. Everything about Fulu Miziki has been repurposed from material rescued from the junkpile,...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
