Massa Dembele is a jeli (griot) from Burkina Faso who plays the kamalengoni. It's a bridged harp-lute not dissimilar to...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
Over the last few years, Oumar Konaté has been making his mark on the Mali guitar scene, his guitar-bass-drums trio...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
Sweet as Broken Dates is a collection of Somali-language pop recorded in Somalia, Somaliland and Djibouti from the 1960s right...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
This is the soundtrack to a documentary by the German filmmaker Lutz Gregor, which chronicles the return to Mali of...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
The simple, unaffected, sound of the traditional ngoni (lute) is one of West Africa's most distinctive and evocative musical delights....
Reviewed in issue October/2017
When you hear Carmen Souza, it's like being thrown into some sort of fantasy land where Billie Holiday was in...
Reviewed in issue August/2017
Ever since 1994, when he burst onto the world music scene with one of his landmark songs ‘Adékalom’, Danyèl Waro...
Reviewed in issue August/2017
The opening track on this album by Cacique ’97, ‘Mahala’, simmers for half a minute before a barrage of horns...
Reviewed in issue August/2017
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