Reviews

Balbalou

Cheikh Lô

It's five years since Cheikh Lô's fourth and final album for the World Circuit label but thankfully little has changed...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Taziri

Titi Robin & Mehdi Nassouli

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

Seckou Keita

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

Miriam Makeba

Ignore the title. For although Makeba – who died in 2008 aged 76 – richly deserved the ‘Mama Africa’ soubriquet,...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Respect

Zangwana

Zangwana describe themselves as an Afro-disco group and on the song ‘I’m Zangwana’ (the only song sung in English) they...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Zoy Zoy

Tal National

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

Pace of Mind

Slang & Purbayan Chatterjee

Continuing to incorporate new sounds into their experimental jazz, the award-winning Belgian trio Slang have teamed up with sitar prodigy...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Womama

Djeli Moussa Condé

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

Ora Doci Ora Margos

Elida Almeida

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

Kodhi: Trevor Warren's Adventures with Ayub Ogada

Ayub Ogada

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