Reviews

Songs from Madagascar: Lasa

Hanitra

This is the third solo album from Hanitra Ranaivo, former singer with Malagasy group Lolo Sy Ny Tariny. She sings...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Kaléidoscope

Fanga

It's easy to feel the pulse of Afrobeat — funky, percussive grooves and jazzy arrangements often paired with conscious, passionate...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Djeli

Ba Cissoko

With Ba Cissoko, great musicianship is always guaranteed. A kora player from Guinea, he is perhaps still best known for...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Body & Voice

Gino Sitson

Gino Sitson is a New York-based vocalist from the Bamileke region of Cameroon, whose family comes from a long line...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Na Kitabo

Kadialy Kouyaté

The scion of a long line of griots and kora (harp-lute) virtuosi from Casamance in southern Senegal, Kadialy Kouyaté is...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Made in Africa

The KutiMangoes

The KutiMangoes started with a simple musical goal in mind: Fela Kuti meets Charles Mingus. Such giants in their field...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Offroad

Becaye

Becaye is a largely self-taught guitarist who spent his childhood in Dakar, Senegal, from where he developed his unique kora-like...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Gunfan Yellem!

Damakase

‘East meets West’ is a common theme within world music fusions, but it's rare to hear one like this: Damakase's...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Just My Soul

Erik Aliana & Picket

This is the fourth album by Erik Aliana, the first two having been in the Bikutsi and Makossa styles of...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Malawi Grooves 1950, ’57 & ’58

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The opportunity to travel in time as well as space is all part of the appeal of world music, although...

Reviewed in issue March/2017