Reviews
Kanéfonyo
Kora player, percussionist, singer, composer, griot and a half-brother of Seckou Keita, Susso has recorded with Norway’s Kristin Asbjornsen Trio,...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Rhythm Revolution
This album of raw, garage-tinged 1970s Afro-funk comes with the most extraordinary back story. Born Jean Maurille Ogoudjobi in 1939...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Bimo
This is the fifth album from the Senegalese griot and kora player who has been UK based for the last...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Musakayike
Although this duo from Malawi have been touring far and wide since the release of their last album in 2019,...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Djine Bora
On their third album this five-piece band from Bamako in Mali have completely mastered their astonishing fusion of traditional and...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
God Created Everything
There’s so much interesting music coming out of Ghana at the moment, from the explosive King Ayisoba and his disciples...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Gnawa Soul
The Gnawa, Morocco’s musical brotherhoods, were placed on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list in 2019. This is a...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Dancing Under the Moon
The Master Musicians of Jajouka Led by Bachir Attar
Cosmic, gargantuan, ecstatic and best played very, very loud, the Master Musicians of Jajouka need little introduction. Since Beat writers...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Thumbs on the Outside
Michael Baird | Michael Baird & Pino Basile
Born in Zambia and based in the Netherlands, percussionist Michael Baird is an intrepid curator of African field recordings and...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Funky Africa
Compared to, say, Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim, Almon Memela is not a name much celebrated in the pantheon of...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
