Reviews

Ma Nature

Olga del Madagascar

Singer and environmental campaigner Olga del Madagascar hails from, as you would expect, Madagascar. The East African island is festooned...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Eparaka

Deltino Guerreiro

Eparaka is the first album from young Mozambican singer Deltino Guerreiro. It's been two years in the making, and the...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Nha Sunhu

Eneida Marta

Think of the music of Guinea-Bissau, and the artists that spring to mind are probably men: Ernesto Dabo, Justino Delgado...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Music of Morocco: Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This four-disc set of Paul Bowles’ recordings in Morocco in 1959 reproduces – with eight additional pieces – the original...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Guy Buttery

Guy Buttery

In the same way that Antoni Gaudí's buildings were guided by nature, Guy Buttery draws his musical inspiration from the...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Tani

Fanfaraï

Since 2005, percussionist Samir Inal has navigated the treacherous waters between North Africa and France with dexterity. His commingling of...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Libraries on Fire

Derek Gripper

Since Songlines first championed the South African guitarist Derek Gripper following his 2012 album One Night on Earth, his transpositions...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Tikounen

Kel Assouf

Can you have too many Touareg guitar records? Not when they’re as potent as this second album from Kel Assouf,...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Trotro

DJ Katapila

When Brian Shimkovitz, owner of the Awesome Tapes from Africa label, asked Ghanaian DJ Katapila if he could re-release his...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Punk Islands

M’Toro Chamou

For Indian Ocean music aficionados, M’Toro Chamou of Mayotte is no new kid on the block. Since 1998, we have...

Reviewed in issue June/2016