Reviews
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
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
