Reviews

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

Volo Hazo

Malagasy Guitar Masters

Three guitarists from three different generations, all from Madagascar, have produced an album that could quite easily sit on an...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Temet

Imarhan

Formed in the southern Algerian city of Tamanrasset and dressing more like the Ramones than traditional desert nomads, Imarhan declared...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Kayeba Khasso

Djénéba & Fousco

This is the debut recording of a married couple from Mali who shot to fame in West Africa following their...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Eghass Malan

Les Filles de Illighadad

This album of Touareg/Tamashek music from Niger is of a similar cultural background to popular groups like Etran Finatawa and...

Reviewed in issue May/2018