Reviews
Here and There
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
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
A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa
Following two volumes, the first in South America, and the second spanning Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, Shika Shika...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Faso Denou
The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar
The rustic Wiltshire village of Box in the Cotswolds could hardly be more quintessentially English. The Rev W Awdry, who...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Orchestre Massako
The latest release in Analog Africa’s Limited Dance Edition series throws the spotlight on Gabon’s Orchestre Massako, founded by Jean-Christian...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Kanéfonyo
Kora player, percussionist, singer, composer, griot and a half-brother of Seckou Keita, Susso has recorded with Norway’s Kristin Asbjornsen Trio,...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Rhythm Revolution
This album of raw, garage-tinged 1970s Afro-funk comes with the most extraordinary back story. Born Jean Maurille Ogoudjobi in 1939...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Bimo
This is the fifth album from the Senegalese griot and kora player who has been UK based for the last...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Musakayike
Although this duo from Malawi have been touring far and wide since the release of their last album in 2019,...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
