Reviews
1958
With his soulful voice, Cameroonian author and singer-songwriter Blick Bassy delivers a luminous and reflective album of 11 songs. Using...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Kadodi
The transliteration of ritual practice to the club dance floor is always an interesting – and often politically charged –...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Zerzura (Original Soundtrack Recording)
Zerzura is a mythical city or oasis that appears in numerous historical accounts of the Sahara. The film Zerzura is...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Hali Diallo
For a lot of Touareg desert blues, the drums are the well of rhythm in the undergrowth of the music,...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Obabes beMbube
The five Zimbabwean female singers who make up the a capella group Nobuntu deliver an uplifting and playful listening experience...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Jedba: Spiritual Music from Morocco
Abdesselam Damoussi & Nour Eddine
The brainchild of producer Abdesselam Damoussi and multi-instrumentalist Nour Eddine, this set of Moroccan Sufi music from across the kingdom...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Akofa Akoussah
Togolese singer Akofa Akoussah died in 2007 aged just 57 and this – originally recorded and released by the French...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
Miri
One of the principle instruments of Mali's griot storytelling tradition is the ngoni (lute), and more than anyone else, Bassekou...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
137 Avenue Kaniama
Musician, poet and filmmaker Baloji was born to a Belgian father and Congolese mother in Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
