Reviews
Lindé
After years of playing with Ali Farka Touré, Afel Bocoum seemed well placed to take over the great man’s mantle...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Umanyanyatha: Songs from the Soul of Zimbabwe
Born in Zimbabwe but resident in Austria for more than 20 years, Vusa Mkhaya made his name in world music...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Siftorde
Tidiane Thiam is a photographer, visual artist and guitarist from Podor, the dusty home town of Baaba Maal in northern...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Afropentatonism
Alhousseini Anivolla & Girum Mezmur
With five notes per octave, the pentatonic scale is considered the oldest scale in the world. Originating in ancient Mesopotamia...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Acoustic
Oumou Sangaré's label have certainly got some mileage out of her brilliant 2017 album, Mogoya. It was followed a year...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
To Know Without Knowing
Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience
This is the second album that Mulatu Astatke, one of the fathers of Ethio-jazz, has recorded with ‘BJX’, the 12-piece...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
The Dancing Devils of Djibouti
World music has woken up to the wondrous delights of Somali music over the past few years through reissues of...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Dounya
Gnawa Youmala are a multinational and multigenerational Paris-based six-piece, and with this debut, they reshape Moroccan Gnawa music with their...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
The King of Sudanese Jazz
The 13th release from Habibi Funk comes from the golden age of Sudanese music. It's by Sharhabil Ahmed, the actual...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
