Reviews

Hali Diallo

Tallawit Timbouctou

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

Nobuntu

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

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

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni ba

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

Baloji

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

From Nubia to Cairo

Ali Hassan Kuban

First released back in 1989, when ‘world music’ was young, this set is as life-enhancing and plain funky as an...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Abu

Abu

Senegalese virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer Abu Djigo set out to make his first album under his own name with...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Yeketelale

Ukandanz

From Dub Colossus through to the Imperial Tiger Orchestra, British and European bands have understandably been fascinated by Ethiopian music...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Valimbilo

Damily

This five-piece tsapiky band are credited with bringing the music of Toliara, Madagascar, to an international audience. With a career...

Reviewed in issue March/2019