Reviews
Zulu Guitar Blues: Cowboys, Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950–1965
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
This is a truly extraordinary album, a captivating chronicle of the glorious, rousing and defiant music that was created during...
Reviewed in issue October/2025
Buya Buya: Come Back
One of the glories of apartheid-era township jive, the Mahotella Queens celebrate their 60th anniversary with their first album of...
Reviewed in issue October/2025
Made Through Ritual
Founded by the American saxophonist James ‘Plunky’ Branch in the 1970s, Oneness of Juju would forge a soulful style of...
Reviewed in issue October/2025
Radio Lusaka
Alick Nkhata was a World War Two veteran, a freedom fighter against colonialism, a singer-musician who led the Lusaka Radio...
Reviewed in issue October/2025
Mulatu Plays Mulatu
Vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke developed Ethio-jazz in the 1960s, and he’s not stopped since, constantly forging new paths for...
Reviewed in issue October/2025
Music For a Revolution Vol 1: Guinea's Syliphone Recording Label (1967–1973)
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
With Music For a Revolution Vol 1, record label Radio Martiko is giving listeners an extraordinary window into a particular...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Gaudencia
After listening to an MC Yallah record it's tempted to conclude that every other rapper in the game is slacking....
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Macaronesia Vol. 1
Entre Ilhas is one of those projects that must be praised for its historical and conceptual relevance, being potentially the...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Toña
Kadialy Kouyate is a superb kora player from Kolda in south Senegal. Now based in the UK, he's involved in...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Kunung Tilo
Singer and kora player Jali Fily Cissokho comes from a long line of West African Mandinka griots – Seckou Keita...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
