The 2017 debut by the young, dreadlocked South African jazz guitarist and singer Sibusile Xaba, Unlearning/Open Letter to Adoniah, received...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Aly Keïta, Jan Galega Brönnimann, Lucas Niggli
When this trio's first release, Kalo-Yele (reviewed in #117), came out in 2016 it promised much but delivered rather less....
Reviewed in issue May/2020
This is a lavish four-CD set of fi eld recordings made by Michael Baird between 1996 and 2016. Baird has...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Apala is a style of call-and-response music popular in the Islamic culture of the Yoruba population of south-west Nigeria. It...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
This is a reissue of the 1976 album originally released by the JAS Pride label in South Africa. The set-up...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Siti Muharam is the greatgranddaughter of Siti Binti Saad, the woman who turned taarab from the inaccessible music of the...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Self-described as ‘nomadic future folk,’ the sound conjured up by dumama + kechou on their debut manages the delicate feat...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Danyèl Waro has spent the past 45 years becoming the international ambassador of maloya, the revolutionary roots music of the...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
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