Reviews

Fenfo

Fatoumata Diawara

Can it really be seven years since Fatoumata Diawara's debut on World Circuit announced her as the brightest new female...

Reviewed in issue June/2018

We Have One Destiny

Ayuune Sule

Ayuune Sule discovered his passion for playing the kologo — a two-stringed lute — learning from the musicians who would...

Reviewed in issue June/2018

Miziki

Dobet Gnahoré

Eight years after receiving a Grammy Award for her song ‘Palea’, the African singer-songwriter Dobet Gnahoré has released her fifth...

Reviewed in issue June/2018

Roadside

Diogal

Currently based in France, Diogal is the son of a Senegalese fisherman and a self-professed ‘sound-designer.’ As well as four...

Reviewed in issue June/2018

Deran

Bombino

After making his last two albums in the US with hotshot rock’n’roll producers, the Niger-born Touareg guitarist-poet Omara ‘Bombino’ Moctar...

Reviewed in issue June/2018

Tawassol

Gabacho Maroc

Gabacho Maroc are a Moroccan-French fusion band who merge Moroccan Gnawa styles with funk-jazz. The ensemble consists of Hamid Moumen...

Reviewed in issue June/2018

One People One World

Femi Kuti

Around the same time as Seun Kuti's excellent new album Black Times, elder brother Femi has also returned to the...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Voun

Zanmari Baré

Zanmari Baré is an exceptionally talented musician. He sings in Creole, with a high, yearning voice that is a little...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Toubalbero

Sidi Touré

After a trio of exquisitely textured all-acoustic albums for the Chicago-based indie label Thrill Jockey, the 59-year-old Malian singer and...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Black Times

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80

With Femi Kuti's musical output slowing in recent times, his younger brother Seun's passion continues to burn bright as he...

Reviewed in issue May/2018