The demand for albums that capture live performance has long been omnipresent, but the clamour has intensified in the digital...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
When we imagine Cape Verdean music, swingy, samba-esque percussion, cavaquinho strums and clarinet warbles float happily through the mind. This...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
It is refreshing to know that the career of highlife singer and multi-instrumentalist Gyedu-Blay Ambolley appears to be on a...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
With a warm blast of flute curling over gentle birdsong, the stage is set for the fourth album by Eneida...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
I'm always wary when I read that an artist wants to ‘broaden their audience’ and make an ‘international’ album –...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Gera's 2016 song ‘Chema Zimbabwe’ (Cry Zimbabwe) was a heartfelt critique of the deteriorating economic and political situation in his...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Anyone who has come across Madonna's latest album may have noticed the singer's recent love affair with Cape Verdean music....
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020
Since her death in 2008, we have been inundated with compilations drawn from Makeba's 50-year career. All of them have...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020
This nine-piece, comprising members from the UK, Congo, Italy, France, Argentina and New Zealand, is a fantastic emblem of the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020
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