Reviews
Mulatu Plays Mulatu
Vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke developed Ethio-jazz in the 1960s, and he’s not stopped since, constantly forging new paths for...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Music For a Revolution Vol 1: Guinea's Syliphone Recording Label (1967–1973)
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
With Music For a Revolution Vol 1, record label Radio Martiko is giving listeners an extraordinary window into a particular...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Gaudencia
After listening to an MC Yallah record it's tempted to conclude that every other rapper in the game is slacking....
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Macaronesia Vol. 1
Entre Ilhas is one of those projects that must be praised for its historical and conceptual relevance, being potentially the...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Toña
Kadialy Kouyate is a superb kora player from Kolda in south Senegal. Now based in the UK, he's involved in...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Kunung Tilo
Singer and kora player Jali Fily Cissokho comes from a long line of West African Mandinka griots – Seckou Keita...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Sé Nam
The party never stops on Sé Nam, an album designed to sweat to. While there's an edge to tracks like...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
N'Darila
Member of esteemed Bamana jeli (griot) lineage from the village of Garana in Segu, Mali, Kankou made her debut in...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Toumaro
If it wasn’t for Salif Keita, Kassé Mady Diabaté would surely have been recognised as the finest male vocalist in...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Rwanda Sings With Strings
On the surface, the fifth album by Rwandan duo The Good Ones is a departure from the usual modus operandi...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
