Born into a family of musicians and storytellers on Ghana's Atlantic coast, Okaidja Afroso learned to sing seafaring songs as...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Baba Commandant & the Mandingo Band
According to a somewhat over-excited press release, the third album by Burkina Faso's Baba Commandant & the Mandingo Band is...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Montparnasse Musique are an unstoppable Afro-Futurist dynamic duo: Algerian-French DJ/producer with a visual arts background, Nadjib, and South African house...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
It's indicative of how the music of East Africa has been overshadowed by its West African cousin that none of...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
One of the first Congolese artists to come to Europe and popularise the commercial soukous sound at the beginning of...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Hi-Life Jazz is a super-cool and joyously good natured new release from the Ghanaian veteran. This is his 35th album...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Bekkas has been a Gnawa fusion artist for more than three decades, founding his Gnaoua Blues Band back in 1990,...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
The 74-year-old Momina is a member of the nomadic Afar people, a Muslim ethnic group who inhabit the desert regions...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Vimbuza is a ceremony of the Tumbuka people of Malawi, where people become healed through trance and the possession of...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
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