Reviews
nomthandazo
Zoë Modiga became a star in South Africa, her birthplace, after appearing on that country’s version of The Voice. She’s...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
Akal
Tarwa N-Tiniri were born in Ouarzazate, Morocco’s ‘door of the desert’ and Akal marks their second album. Its title translates...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper
Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper
In terms of guitar and kora duos, it’s hard to think much beyond the inspired collaboration of Toumani Diabaté and...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
Live in Turku
Dawda Jobarteh & Stefan Pasborg
Bliss it must have been to have attended the Finnish jazz festival where this live set was recorded featuring the...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
Radio Masoda
On this, his latest of 20 albums, the Paris-based guitarist and composer adds to his native Cameroonian music generous pinches...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds in the Diaspora, 1980-93
This compilation, the second in a Soundways series that started with 2009’s Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-1981,...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
Maisha
Maisha is an exquisite debut of originals that vividly bring to life the music of the Gogo (also Wagogo) people...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
Men Lŏnu
Duo Landry+ formed in 2016 after an encounter at the Institut Français de Cotonou. Together, clarinettist, flautist and saxophonist Landry...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
CultureRize: Bamako All Stars Vol I
All-star projects can often end up with curate’s egg on their tracklists. The Bamako-based collective with the cumbersome name are...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
