Reviews
Beyond Addis Vol 2
The legacy of Mulatu Astatké rolls on splendidly on this second volume of contemporary interpretations of his Ethio-jazz style. Astatké...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Legend of Funaná
Due to its rural origin, funaná was forbidden for years in Cape Verde – most notably in Santiago, where it...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Rivers: From the Congo to the Mississippi
A veteran soukous guitarist from the DRC, Siama Matuzungidi played on local hits by the likes of Kanda Bongo Man,...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
The Young Man's Harp
Born in Mali in 1974, Noumoussa Soumaoro – aka Vieux Kanteé – began playing the six-string hunter's harp known as...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Dakan
In the world of the djembé, we have progressed a long way from CDs of traditional dance drumming captured purely...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Nigeria Freedom Sounds!
Subtitled ‘Popular Music and the Birth of Independent Nigeria,’ these 23 tracks were all recorded more than half a century...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
It's Time
In 2002 the Red Hot + Riotcompilation album, which was an AIDS awareness release and tribute to the music of...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
West to West
If you had to sum up Nii Okai Tagoe in the reductionist shorthand pigeonholing that the modern world demands, ‘Ghanaian...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
This is Kologo Power!
Music from Bolgatanga, the capital of Ghana's Sahelian north-east region, is hugely different from the more accessible highlife generally made...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
