Reviews

Amdjer

Lucibela

Amdjer is as bittersweet and comforting as a perfectly crafted negroni, served with a tropical breeze and a sultry sunset....

Reviewed in issue October/2022

The Movers Vol 1: 1970-1976

The Movers

For a band that reportedly sold 500,000 copies of its debut album in 1970 and managed to break the colour...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

African Journey

Glenn Keiles

Glenn Keiles is an established composer and producer who first opened a studio in Brixton, London in 1982, spending the...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Roforofo Fight

Fela Kuti

Following Fela Kuti’s trip to the US in 1969, he returned to Nigeria with a revolutionary mission, changed the name of his...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Night Spirit Masters

VARIOUS ARTISTS

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

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)

James BKS

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

Kibrom Birhane

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

VARIOUS ARTISTS

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