Reviews
Night Spirit Masters
Recorded live at night in the medina of Marrakech by Billy Youdelman using an Akai digital 12-track and produced by...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
O Ku Ngwo Di Ochi
Oriental Brothers International Band
Fifty years ago the Oriental Brothers were a kind of Nigerian boy band. Hailing from the Igbo-dominated eastern region of...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Omera
Ayub Ogada, who died in 2019, was one of Kenya’s finest musicians, a master of the nyatiti (lyre), and a...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Wolves of Africa (Part 1/2)
This debut album from established hip-hop producer and performer James BKS is the culmination of a musical journey starting in...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Here and There
Since its (then) undiscovered flowering in the 1970s, Ethio-jazz has spread around the musical world like an exotic plant. Before...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Music from Saharan WhatsApp
Sahel Sounds’ groundbreaking 2011 compilation Music from Saharan Cellphones opened the world’s ears to the massive network of democratic digital...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa
Following two volumes, the first in South America, and the second spanning Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, Shika Shika...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Faso Denou
The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar
The rustic Wiltshire village of Box in the Cotswolds could hardly be more quintessentially English. The Rev W Awdry, who...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Orchestre Massako
The latest release in Analog Africa’s Limited Dance Edition series throws the spotlight on Gabon’s Orchestre Massako, founded by Jean-Christian...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
