Reviews
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Xavier Rudd & the United Nations
The eighth studio album from the barefoot Aussie troubadour sees him foregoing his one-man band approach, where he multi-tracked countless...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
You No Fit Touch Am
There is Femi and Seun Kuti, of course, and the ever-dextrous iconic Tony Allen, who guests hither and yon. But...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Sings with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Fresh from winning a Grammy for Best World Music Album for 2014's Eve, which featured massed choirs and the Kronos...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Leila
The competition is getting tough out in the Saharan desert, but singer Leila Gobi fares well with her eponymous third...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Music of Angola
Manuel Diogo mixes traditional and contemporary Angolan gospel music: he blends recognisable gospel sounds – from the harmonies of African...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Metisse Maloya
The island of La Réunion is a French territory located in the Indian Ocean, lying to the east of Madagascar,...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Gossip
This is veteran Malian singer Khaira Arby's first album in five years, recorded in 2010 and 2012 in various parts...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66
This double-CD set captures the ‘colonial’-influenced dance music of Anglophone West Africa, from shortly before and after Ghanaian and Nigerian...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Zomba Prison Project: I Have No Everything Here
In 2013, producer Ian Brennan clandestinely documented the music found inside Zomba's maximum security institution in Malawi. Some of the...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Ballads & Blasphemy: The Religious Gospel of Adebola Kuku
Nigerian singer-songwriter Kuku has an interesting heritage. Born Adebola Kuku in the US and raised in Lagos, he now resides...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
