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
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
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
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
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 is one of those rare treats of a compilation album that gives what by all accounts...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
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 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
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
Congolese rumba can trace its history back to the ports along the great river separating Brazzaville and Kinshasa ’ the...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
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