Reviews
Afrotunes: Best of Juju Vol II, Oba Mimo Olorun Ayo
Originally released on vinyl in 1985 by Nigerian label Tabansi Records, the rarity of this reissue will no doubt send...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Supreme Talent Show
Upon listening to this album, it is clear that MC Waraba and Mélèké Tchatcho deserve the confidence their album title...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Mlouk: Gnawa and World Music Festival
The Gnawa and World Music Festival of Essaouira, Morocco is one of the planet's most pioneering and progressive musical celebrations....
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Rhymes With Orange
An enthusiastic duo from Bristol comprised of guitarist and singer Jon Lewis and singer and percussionist Jah-Man Aggrey, originally from...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Alumaye
The second album from the Burkinabé kamalengoni player Massa Dembele has a much bigger sound compared to his mostly solo...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Le Monde est Chaud
The Ivory Coast's Moussa Doumbia has been singing reggae under the name Tiken Jah Fakoly for more than 25 years....
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Egoli
All aboard Damon Albarn's exhilarating Africa Express again, this time bound for Johannesburg. Albarn travelled to South Africa last year...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Forêt Sacrée
Joel Nya is a singer-songwriter who clearly takes his influences not just from the popular bikutsi style but also from...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Trumpet King Zeal Onyia Returns
When Louis Armstrong toured West Africa in 1961, he dubbed Onyia ‘the highlife hep cat of Nigerian jazz trumpet.’ One...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
The Healing
BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness) return with an album of ‘music for the people, by the people, with the people.’...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
