Reviews
nomthandazo
Zoë Modiga became a star in South Africa, her birthplace, after appearing on that country’s version of The Voice. She’s...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2024
Akal
Tarwa N-Tiniri were born in Ouarzazate, Morocco’s ‘door of the desert’ and Akal marks their second album. Its title translates...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: July/2024
Strange Medicine
Over a series of increasingly impressive albums Kater has grown from a banjo-playing traditionalist into a thrillingly adventurous songwriter. Kater...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2024
Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper
Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper
In terms of guitar and kora duos, it’s hard to think much beyond the inspired collaboration of Toumani Diabaté and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2024
Ginga
The fifth album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Flavia Coelho is brimming with uplifting, catchy melodies, which have become her signature appeal....
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: July/2024
Live in Turku
Dawda Jobarteh & Stefan Pasborg
Bliss it must have been to have attended the Finnish jazz festival where this live set was recorded featuring the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2024
Radio Masoda
On this, his latest of 20 albums, the Paris-based guitarist and composer adds to his native Cameroonian music generous pinches...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2024
No Reino dos Afetos 2
For his second outing Berle, now relocated to São Paulo from his home state of Alagoas, has once more co-produced...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: July/2024
Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds in the Diaspora, 1980-93
This compilation, the second in a Soundways series that started with 2009’s Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-1981,...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2024
