Reviews
Of Time
Ethio-jazz- and Afrobeat-inspired groups are a ubiquitous presence at music festivals these days, with new album releases appearing year after...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: February/March/2026
Radio Lusaka
Alick Nkhata was a World War Two veteran, a freedom fighter against colonialism, a singer-musician who led the Lusaka Radio...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2025
Ethiopiques 32
Nalbandian the Ethiopian & Either/Orchestra
Boston’s Either/Orchestra featured on Ethiopiques 20 in a live recording made in Addis in 2004 and resurface here with a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2026
Galaxia Tropical
This is Analog Africa’s eagerly anticipated second volume of works by Jorge Raúl Llerena Vásquez, the legendary cumbia singer and...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: April/2026
Al Wahem
PRAED is an amalgamation of Raed Yassin (electronics, vocals) and Paed Conca (clarinets, bass, samples), from Lebanon and Switzerland respectively,...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2026
Başka Bahar
Over the last decade, there’s been a slew of European bands – often including a Turkish member – who’ve drawn...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2026
Spanish Dogs
It’s surprising that this brassy nine-piece outfit hails from Madrid, as from the opening ‘Batanga Caballero’ (underlined later by ‘Cocacho...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2026
La Giostra
Kërkim (Albanian for ‘Research’) is an Apulian five-piece outfit augmented with a few guests. The result might be wrongly filed...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2021
Instar
Ecology, politics, and the rigours and inequities of the present framed by the struggles and injustices of the past are...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2016
