Reviews
Latin DNA
It's hard to dislike Dorancé Lorza & Sexteto Café as this is passionate and earnest music with a true love...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Ubuntu: The Common String
In 1979 Dizu Plaatjies created the South African percussion ensemble Amampondo in Cape Town. Initially they were a street-busking group...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
The YoYouMeTú Trilogy: Vol 1 & 2
Never judge a book by its cover. And here's the proof: behind the clumsy Photoshop artwork and liner notes there...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
La Légende de Dakar
One thing that can never be faked or replicated is the easy, yet super-tight swing of a band that has...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Lost in Mali
There has long been a suspicion that the world music we get to hear is only part of the story,...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
African Harmonies
African ground hornbills don’t sing, but they do emit calls that can apparently be heard from a distance of about...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Sabaru
Sekou is the son of Guinean kora player M’Bady Kouyaté, but takes tradition further, using amplification and effects pedals. He...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Singles As Bs & 12 Inches
Osibisa were brave pioneers – a band of Ghanian, Nigerian and Caribbean musicians who came together in London at the...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Songs of Paapieye
SK Kakraba is a Ghanaian musician living in Los Angeles, and his instrument is the gyil. This pentatonic xylophone of...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
