Reviews
Tikounen
Can you have too many Touareg guitar records? Not when they’re as potent as this second album from Kel Assouf,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016
Trotro
When Brian Shimkovitz, owner of the Awesome Tapes from Africa label, asked Ghanaian DJ Katapila if he could re-release his...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2016
Tocororo
This young Cuban jazz pianist's third album starts with a radical reinvention of the old Compay Segundo favourite, ‘Chan Chan’:...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2016
Punk Islands
For Indian Ocean music aficionados, M’Toro Chamou of Mayotte is no new kid on the block. Since 1998, we have...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: June/2016
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Highlife-Jazz and Afro-Soul (1963-1969)
Fela Ransome Kuti and His Koola Lobitos
No other African musician has garnered as much global interest as Fela Kuti – Nigeria's creator of Afrobeat. His appeal...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2016
World Music
Still in his early 30s, Australian-Egyptian oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros has already released a dozen albums, three of which won...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2016
Land of Gold
Land of Gold is a very personal response to the growing migration and refugee crisis. Across ten tracks, it follows...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2016
Offlines Project
The musical influences of Turkey, Israel, Iraq, Iran and many other places can be heard in this intelligent collaboration from...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2016
Myriad Road
The jazz album is often the second-last refuge of a career on the slide (reggae generally being the final resort...
Reviewed by David Hutcheon in issue: June/2016
Red Diesel
It's been a long five years since the trio of singer Lucy Wright, fiddler Tom Kitching and one-man-band Edwin Beasant...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2016
