It would be unfair to say that our taste for the Touareg blues style known as assouf, pioneered by Tinariwen...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Continuing to incorporate new sounds into their experimental jazz, the award-winning Belgian trio Slang have teamed up with sitar prodigy...
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Hailing from Guinea, living in Paris and with spiritual roots in Mali and Gambia, Djeli Moussa Condé's experience is one...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Who is Elida Almeida? Across 2015, many other music lovers will ask the same question. That is because this, the...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
In the late 80s Ayub Ogada was one of the great ‘discoveries’ of WOMAD. His 1993 album En Mana Kuoyo...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
In 2003 the harpist Andy Lowings set about creating a playable replica of the earliest known stringed instrument, the Gold...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
When the much-lauded Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili imploded in early 2013, at the height of their global fame, that...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Anyone seeking pure guitar energy and signs of a healthy musical revival in Bamako need look no further. Led by...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
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