Reviews
Zama Zama
A Zulu expression, roughly translating as let‘s try our luck’, might not seem the likeliest choice of title for a...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: March/2010
Africa Express Presents…
Africa Express is a loose cooperative of like minds (with Damon Albarn somewhere near the hub) that takes Western rock...
Reviewed by Mark Ellingham in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Guo Gan ‘Swordmen’ Trio
Over the last two decades, Paris-based erhu virtuoso Guo Gan has established himself as one of the leading ambassadors of...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2022
Momo Le Doyen
The Guinea-born saxophonist, singer and composer, who died in 2003 at the age of 77, was one of Africa’s greatest...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Doghouse
All is quiet on the Balkan front of late. One exception from the region is this jazzy new release from...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: January/February/2023
Mayday
In the middle of this excellent album two songs exemplify its sophistication. In ‘The Factory Girl’, a woman rejects the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Osmanity
Like rats jumping a sinking ship, world beat DJs have ditched the Balkans in favour of sounds further afield —...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: January/2021
Nigeria Afrobeat Special: The New Explosive Sound in 1970s Nigeria
One of the great things to happen musically in the post–civil war Nigeria of the 1970s was the birth and...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2010
