Reviews
Direct-to-Disc Sessions
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
Radio Verde: Cape Verdean Dancefoor Magic
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
11th Street, Sekondi
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
Ibra
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
Babani Koné
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
Music in Me/Nziyo Dziri Mandiri
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
Pour Me A Grog: The Funaná Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde
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
Pata Pata
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
Humans
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
