Reviews

Ere Gobez

Debo Band

America's Debo Band revisits and transforms with uncanny authenticity the kind of classic Ethiopian music popularised by the epic Éthiopiques...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Ala Ta

Awa Sangho

If you’ve seen Salif Keita, Oumou Sangaré or Amadou & Mariam live, you may well have seen Awa Sangho, for...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Bes

The Dwarfs of East Agouza

Formed in 2012, the trio who make up the Dwarfs found themselves living in the same apartment building in Cairo's...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

The Rough Guide to South African Jazz

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The title might suggest another nostalgic ‘golden era’ compilation of township jive, kwela and marabi, built around the old favourites...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Afrika Mamas

Afrika Mamas

One cannot help but be transported to the rolling hills of Zululand when listening to the Afrika Mamas’ latest, self-titled...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Kokuma

Gambari Band

The Germany-based Membran is the new home of Christian Scholze's ground-breaking Network label, which did so much to put African...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Musics from Nyanza

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This double-CD set is one of the most recent releases of the ever-impeccable Ocora Radio France label. Continuing the French...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Loundo (Un Jour)

Moh! Kouyaté

Moh! (sic) Kouyaté was given his first guitar by his grandmother in the Guinean capital Conakry, where he grew up,...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

My Love and Music

Ebo Taylor

He may be 80 this year and still touring, but this pair of reissues turn the clock back half a...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

Azel

Bombino

The music of the Niger-born Touareg guitarist Omara ‘Bombino’ Moctar seems to have captured the imagination of the American indie-rock...

Reviewed in issue May/2016