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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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