Kadialy Kouyate is a Longtime London-based kora player. A maestro of the West African 21-string harp-Lute, he is also a...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
If you Like your desert blues raw and unmediated and think Tinariwen are over-produced, then AL Bilali Soudan is for...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
This is the debut from an extremely versatile singer and guitarist from Kenya. Fadhilee Itulya's music is a modern fusion...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Kampala has an insatiable sense of groove. While neighbouring capital Kinshasa is better known for its industrial mix of percussion...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
A label, venue, and performing arts foundation, Muziekpublique's latest release focuses on Brussels’ population of Gnawa musicians, which numbers some...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Hailed by Seun Kuti as ‘one of the best things to come out of Lagos,’ the trumpeter and composer Etuk...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
There's a bitter aftertaste to this album. The latest in Glitterbeat's acclaimed Hidden Musics series, it should be an absorbing...
Reviewed in issue June/2020
In 1981 Brian Eno travelled to Ghana to produce an album by the eight-piece Afro-funk band Edikanfo. Shortly after its...
Reviewed in issue June/2020
Y-Bayani & Baby Naa & The Band of Enlightenment, Reason & Love
Ghanaian singers Y-Bayani and Baby Naa give their spin on African roots reggae on Nsie Nsie. Fusing reggae grooves with...
Reviewed in issue June/2020
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