Reviews
Mornas ao Piano
The first few bars of Mornas ao Piano can trick you into thinking there's a Cuban record coming your way....
Reviewed in issue August/2017
Kin Sonic
There's a lot of laughter in this second album by the Congo's Jupiter & Okwess. Dramatic, over-the-top ‘mwa-ha-ha's from the...
Reviewed in issue August/2017
White African Power
It's a bold and ambitious idea to enter an isolated community who have no experience of singing and ask them...
Reviewed in issue August/2017
Beautiful World
The Namibian-born Elemotho (stage name of Gaalelekwe Richardo Mosimane) grew up listening to his elders telling stories around a campfire...
Reviewed in issue August/2017
Oté Maloya: The Birth of Electric Maloya on Réunion Island 1975-1984
Now this is a compilation to be treasured. Maloya is the roots music of La Réunion, a diasporic African mix...
Reviewed in issue August/2017
Kora Fo
Born into a legendary griot family in Casamance, Senegal, for the past decade Maher Cissoko has been resident in Sweden,...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
Zaire 74: The African Artists
The ‘Rumble in the Jungle,’ as the 1974 Heavyweight Championship boxing bout between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman was known,...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
Beyond the Grid
Led by the jazz saxophonist Guillaume Van Parys, Afrikän Protoköl brings together Belgian jazzers and traditional musicians from Burkina Faso...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
Around Félicité OST
Kasai Allstars & Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste
It comes as a surprise when, three songs in, the signature buzz, clatter and twang of the Congolese collective Kasai...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
Anewal: OSAS – It's Time
Founder member of Niger's desert blues champions Etran Finatawa, Alhousseini Anivolla has given us a second solo set that is...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
