Reviews

Djekpa La You

Dobet Gnahoré

An exceptional live performer and a brilliant songwriter, it’s not hard to see why Ivorian Dobet Gnahoré was chosen to...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010

Anthology 2

Fela Kuti

How to collect the music of Fela Kuti has long challenged record buyers. His original vinyl albums tended to contain...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010

Beginner’s Guide to South Africa

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The title’s something of a misnomer. While this extended trawl of the last 30 plus years of South African music...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010

The Collection

Lusanda Spiritual Group

Gospel music is the biggest selling genre in South Africa and the Lusanda Spiritual Group rival Ladysmith Black Mambazo and...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010

Zembrocal Musical

Groove Lélé & Ernst Reijseger

Groove Lélé are a Creole group from the island La Réunion, located in the Indian Ocean to the east of...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010

Adama Drame

Adama Dramé

A long-term champion of West Africa’s loudest hand drum, the djembé master Adama Dramé here gets his early 90s solo...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010

Afrobeast

Yaaba Funk

Yaaba Funk are a multiracial, multi¬national ten-piece Brixton band who have developed a strong reputation over the past two years...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010

Shouka

Mariem Hassan

There hasn’t been much news from the Western Sahara recently. But all is not quiet on the Western front. Shouka...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010

Jamm

Cheikh Lô

Albums by Cheikh Lô are rare enough to make them seem like events rather than mere record releases and Jamm...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010

Muzikr

Carlou D

He’s been rumoured to be Senegal’s next big thing for years, and for good reason. Carlou D has steadily climbed...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010