Reviews
Lion Songs: Essential Tracks in the Making of Zimbabwe
As an audio companion to his recent biography of Mapfumo, the American writer and guitarist Banning Eyre has compiled 14...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
The West African Blues Project
The easiest way to describe The West African Blues Project is that it is exactly what it says in its...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
Alone (Ténéré)
Terakaft cannot be numbered among the legion of Tinariwen imitators to have emerged in recent years; they were there at...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Akö
Born in Cameroon in 1974 but resident in Paris since 2005, Bassy spent ten years in the jazz fusion group...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
We Are in the War
Also known as Aduko Saabo, Prince Buju is the latest luminary to gain exposure through Makkum Records, the Amsterdam-based label...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Taziri
French guitarist and bouzouki player Robin's musical journeys around the Mediterranean are part of his signature style. His latest collaboration...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
22 Strings
After his sublime album, Clychau Dibon, with Welsh harpist Catrin Finch that won Best Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the 2014 Songlines...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Mama Africa
Ignore the title. For although Makeba – who died in 2008 aged 76 – richly deserved the ‘Mama Africa’ soubriquet,...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
