If there’s anything negative to say about Fela Kuti’s music in particular and Afrobeat in general it’s that it don’t...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Sahra Halgan is a hero of Somaliland’s music. At home, in the unrecognised Somali state’s capital, Hargeisa, she runs the...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Gabon-born singer Pamela Badjogo honed her chops as a backing vocalist for Grammy-winning powerhouse diva Angélique Kidjo, then went on...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
A fine balance of danceable music which pushes the boat out sonically and a sound firmly rooted in Congolese rumba...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
The style of Touareg guitar music known to the world as ‘desert blues’ and to the musicians themselves as assouf...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissoko
Reissued to mark the 25th anniversary of its 1999 release on Joe Boyd’s Hannibal label, New Ancient Strings remains a...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Along with Alpha Blondy and the late Lucky Dube, Ivory Coast’s Tiken Jah Fakoly is part of a righteous trinity...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
A veteran of Mali’s oldest dance orchestra Super Biton de Ségou, Mama Sissoko became the band’s guitarist in 1972. When...
Reviewed in issue April/2024
There are few more ancient instruments than Mali’s six-stringed, individually bowed n’dan, or ‘traveller’s harp’. Fewer still whose existence is...
Reviewed in issue April/2024
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