Reviews
Fatteliku: Live in Athens
Youssou N’Dour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar
In 1987, when it looked as though global sounds, African music in particular, would take a major share of the...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Selina
Fatau Keita & The Naawuni Bie Band
This is a highly enjoyable and very lively album that mixes several contemporary African musical styles. At the core is...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Ndikho Xaba & The Natives
The South African pianist Ndikho Xaba was 30 years old when he sought exile in the US in 1964. He...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Mountains of the Moon
Ganda Boys are two Ugandans and an American based in the UK. This is the group's third album and –...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Ligéey
Most listeners will probably have first encountered the Senegalese singer Amadou Diagne on a 2012 set in World Music Network's...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Djamila
Here's a second album from Mamadou Kelly, a guitarist and singer from the Malian area of Goundam and Niafunke –...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Say What?
Two Man Ting is a Bristol-based duo who have been plugging away at the festival circuit. Jon Lewis and Jah-Man...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Good is Good
This is an album of powerful instrumental jazz, based on the ancient traditional music of the Dagaare tribe and Guo...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Go Slow to Lagos
As the album's title suggests, there's a marked Nigerian Afrobeat feel to this Benin crew's latest, as well as a...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
The Indispensable 1955-1962
Once music goes out of its 50-year copyright, open season follows on the reissues market. Two issues ago I reviewed...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
