Reviews
Recordar é Viver: Antologia Vol 1
This anthology provides an excellent opportunity to expand any record collection that’s light on the music of São Tomé and...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Do You Know a Place Called Flekkeröy?
Scandinavia in recent years has provided a home for many fine African musicians and the Gambian-born Denmark-based kora player Dawda...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
The Movers Vol 1: 1970-1976
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 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
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
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, 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)
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
