Reviews
BIM#1
Kicking off with an attention-grabbing holler before skittering into Afrobeat on the opening track ‘Destiny’, this fabulous debut showcases Benin's...
Reviewed in issue June/2019
Sika Mila
Mayotte became the 101st department of France in 2011, but located between Madagascar and the coast of Mozambique, the archipelago's...
Reviewed in issue June/2019
The Upstage Album
Oska Tee is a South African producer, composer and singer with a fine tenor voice, a thing for the club...
Reviewed in issue June/2019
The Best of the SABC Years
Starting her career in the 1950s, Irene Mawela wrote songs for the Dark City Sisters and the Mahotella Queens, was...
Reviewed in issue June/2019
Karne Vwayaz
Zonatan is the alias of Mauritian singer Jonathan Andy. His songs are gentle and mellow, poppy even, but he has...
Reviewed in issue June/2019
This is Frafra Power
This is Frafra Power is one of those rare treats of a compilation album that gives what by all accounts...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Naming & Blaming
The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra
This is the second album from the Melbourne-based Public Opinion Afro Orchestra and it is unabashedly Afrobeat. The group take...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Wahala Wahala
Wahala means ‘Problem’ or ‘Trouble’, but I had no problem enjoying this album. It is high-energy and punchy, as you'd...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Niafunke
Twenty years ago Ali Farka Touré made an album called Niafunke, named after his home town near Timbuktu on the...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Nostalgique Kongo: Rumbas Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo & Douala 1950-1960
Congolese rumba can trace its history back to the ports along the great river separating Brazzaville and Kinshasa ’ the...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
