Reviews
Baraaim El-Louz
Led by French pianist and composer Karim Maurice, Lyon-based group Koum Tara’s second album on the Odradek label, Baraaim El-Louz...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Tears of the Sun
The sophomore album from rising Nigerian star Teni is an Afrobeats-tastic affair in which the artist sings and raps in...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Afro Jazz Folk Collection Vol 2
Three years ago, Mieruba – a rarity among crate-digging enterprises in that the label is actually based in West Africa...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Dama Bëgga Ñibi (I Want to Go Home)
In the spring of 2020, Bakane Seck, the Senegalese percussionist and founder of Dakar’s Jeri Jeri Band, found himself stranded...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Afrika Muye Muye!: Tanzanian Rumba and Muziki Wa Dansi (1968-1970)
Put together by music historian and archivist Rob Allingham with research and translation help from Werner Graebner, Afrika Muye Muye!...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
3
Anyone who caught the concert at London’s Barbican last year by veteran South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim will know...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Chaos
On first play of this sparkling debut album from Nigerian 12-piece Lagos Thugs, it’s hard to believe you’re not listening...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Musow Dance
When Les Amazones d’Afrique gave their debut British concert at WOMAD, back in 2016, they sounded gloriously original. Here were...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Duniama
The Jarabi Band was formed a decade ago when Mohamed Camara, a Guinean-born, Australian-based kora player, songwriter and vocalist, and...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Dimanche à Bamako
If that title sounds familiar, it probably is: this album shares its name with Amadou & Mariam’s 2005 masterwork –...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
