Reviews
Borga Revolution! Ghanaian Dance Music in the Digital Age 1983-1996 (Vol Two)
By the 1980s Ghana's once vibrant highlife scene was in decline along with the country's economy, and many of the...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Amazigh Freedom Rock 1973-1983
Here is another fabulously funky slice of history from Swiss label Bongo Joe; Amazigh Freedom Rock is a compilation from...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
The Berlin Session
In the 1980s, Dur-Dur Band were one of Somalia's biggest groups, in high demand and performing their uniquely Somali disco...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Sheikhs Shikhats & B’net Chaabi
Sheikhs Shikhats & B’net Chaabi
This sprawling 18-piece Belgian ensemble combines Sheikhs Shikhats and B’net Chaabi, the former a horn-dominated band fronted by a female...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Helen Nkume & Her Young Timers Band
Helen Nkume was approaching her thirties when she began her musical career in the early 1970s. Before the decade was...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Aladura Songs Book
Aladura Songs Book finds two-time Grammy Award-winning percussionist Lekan Babalola – Lagos, Nigeria-born and living in his adopted Birmingham (UK)...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
A Message from Mozambique
Fifty years ago, change was brewing. The outrage piqued by US-backed war and civil war in Africa, by racism, injustice...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
This Is Zologo Beat
From the home of kologo music in Ghana's Upper East Region, comes a new dance compilation innovated by one of...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Try and Love
Imagine Lagos, Nigeria in 1972, when Fela Kuti was flying high with recordings like ‘Shakara’ and ‘Roforofo Fight’, jùjú music...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Music Inferno: The Indestructible Beat Tour 1988-89
Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens
This collection of live recordings starts with Mahlathini telling an enthusiastic audience, “we’re going to give you the real Soweto...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
