Reviews
Unite
Some folks follow in the footsteps of Fela, others follow Femi… This ten-piece Afrobeat band from Spain seem to opt...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Sound Therapy
French multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer Julien Souletie has been working under the name Manjul from his own Humble Ark Studio...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Vinyl Box Set #5
Fela Kuti’s vast and sprawling catalogue has been repackaged and repurposed, anthologised and annotated countless times since his death in...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Soweto
Robson Banda and the New Black Eagles
Robson Banda started his career as a member of Thomas Mapfumo’s first group Acid Band. In Zimbabwe the chimurenga music...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Assouf
It has been two decades since desert blues music first stepped onto the international stage, and although the world still...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Essiebons Special 1973-1984: Ghana Music Power House
The recently departed Ghanaian producer and label-owner Dick Essilfie-Bondzie was digitising his recording vaults right up until his death, discovering...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
The Best of Vis-A-Vis in Congo Style
Earlier this year Songlines reviewed the reissue of Obi Agye Me Dofo, a rare 1977 album from the golden age...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Umoyo Wa Muthempire (Live in the Temple)
Tonga Boys feat Doctor Kanuska Group
For those in the Malawian countryside, the Tonga Boys from Mzuzu are a band from the big city and the...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
