Reviews
Kekete Bue
One of the first Congolese artists to come to Europe and popularise the commercial soukous sound at the beginning of...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Hi-Life Jazz
Hi-Life Jazz is a super-cool and joyously good natured new release from the Ghanaian veteran. This is his 35th album...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Joudour
Bekkas has been a Gnawa fusion artist for more than three decades, founding his Gnaoua Blues Band back in 1990,...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Afar Ways
The 74-year-old Momina is a member of the nomadic Afar people, a Muslim ethnic group who inhabit the desert regions...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Viyezgo: Vimbuza from Mzimba South
Vimbuza is a ceremony of the Tumbuka people of Malawi, where people become healed through trance and the possession of...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
World Spirituality Classics, Vol 3: The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah
When Alhaji Waziri Oshomah started his band in Afenmailand in southern Nigeria’s Edo state they would walk miles to gigs...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Ela Ela
This is a Franco-Malagasy fusion led by Berikely who sings and plays the kabossy (an acoustic box guitar with four...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Where We Are
This second album by Bristolian Afrobeat specialists No Go Stop benefits from a powerful production, the 12-piece band tightly arranged...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
In Paris
The tween and teenage girls of Benin’s Star Feminine Band knew nothing – zip – about playing music before 2016...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
