Reviews
Tolonso
Following their excellent debut, Miriya [reviewed in #127], this is the sophomore release from an exciting and very talented group...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
History
Whereas Salif Keita's recent album, Un Autre Blanc [reviewed in #146], only featured a lone foray into AutoTune vocals, the...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Sunny Afrika
After his professional musical start in Ghana in the 1970s as a member of the group Basa Basa at Faisal...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
360°
Mulele Matondo was born in Kinshasa but his career was built in Zimbabwe, working with the Lubumbashi Stars and the...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Hitsville Re-Visited
Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas & Uhuru Yenzu
The cavalcade of 1970s and 80s African album reissues shows no signs of slowing. This one, originally released in 1982,...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Orchestre Univers
Two years after his successful Univers-Île album [a Top of the World album review in #132], Jeremy Labelle, a forerunner...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Ambolley
For many of us, our first introduction to the Ghanaian singer and bandleader Gyedu-Blay Ambolley was when Soundway included a...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Central African Republic: Gbáyá Music – Thinking Songs
The Gbáyá are one of the largest ethnic groups in an area spanning the border of the Central African Republic...
Reviewed in issue June/2019
Qhum Qhaks
Kwaito, the music that blew up in 90s post-apartheid South Africa characterised by slowed-down house beats and breezy rapping, is...
Reviewed in issue June/2019
