Imagine Somalia without suicide bombers and the murderous, al-Qaeda-linked militants of al-Shabaab. Picture instead Mogadishu as a part city in...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Sahra Halgan is a powerful and entertaining singer for whom life has never been easy. For a start, she comes...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Built almost solely around the simple spine of his guitar, soulful voice and African percussion, the fourth album from the...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
This is a welcome reimagining of a remarkable recording that captured the early days of the Congotronics groups. Recorded in...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
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
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