Reviews
A.O.E.I.U (An Ordinary Exercise in Unity)
Florence Adooni is a singer born to the Frafra people of northeast Ghana. She grew up performing in church choirs...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2025
Making Moves
Although it’s only five years after their debut album, this slow coach follow-up still makes the Santrofi eight-piece sound like...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2025
Indumiso YabeNguni
Ntuthuko Ndebele – aka Mthuthu – began setting his lyrics to house music in collaboration with various South African DJs...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2025
High Horse
If beautiful, genre-melding compositions that blur the lines between bluegrass, roots, jazz and chamber music performed by a group of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2025
Shadows of Perception
Currently based in Australia, Aracan originally hail from Colombia. Guitarist and producer Carlos Arango previously played with a 15-piece cumbia...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: April/2025
Vive L’Amour
Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble are an unusual and intriguing project that started back in 2009 when Finnish guitarist Janne Halonen travelled to...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2025
Fisherman
If you were a music fan in Nairobi back in the 70s, you would almost certainly have spent time at...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2024
No Love in Lagos
Show Dem Camp, The Cavemen, Nsikak David
Two of Lagos’ most talented duos, The Cavemen and Show Dem Camp, speak to the dating scene in the nation’s...
Reviewed by Erin Cobby in issue: December/2024
