Reviews
Voyageur
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté | Ali Farka Touré
A new album of nine unheard studio cuts from the Malian legend comes 17 years after his death, but slip...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Bantu Spaceship
Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe has witnessed something of a musical freeing up since the death of the revolutionary turned tyrant in 2019....
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Interconnectedness
When Carmen Souza first began playing and recording with her faithful partner, the bassist and producer Theo Pas’cal, their music...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Kelena Fôly
Grand pianos are not heard much in West African music, but Cheick Tidiane Seck has been playing for more than...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Dindin
From the age of eight, Kimi Djabaté was forced to sing and play balafón at weddings and baptisms in Guinea-Bissau...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Dogo Du Togo
This self-titled debut is the solo project of Serge Massama Dogo, Togolese founder of the Afropop band Elikeh. Born in...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Asmara
Jazz trumpeter Hermon Mehari is a Kansas City native based in Paris, but his third album, Asmara, is a reflection...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Family
Eneida Marta is perhaps the best known female singer from Guinea-Bissau, a diva whose golden, wide-ranging voice – an instrument...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Maloya Malbar
Is La Réunion the new Cuba? Just as the music of the latter pulsed ubiquitously through the late 90s and...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
