Reviews
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
Le Sato 2
Latest in Acid Jazz’s reissue programme from the legendary Benin record label Albarika Store, this newly revived vintage gem was...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
African Acoustic
A few years back Songlines used to be deluged with multi-artist budget-priced compilations like this one. Indeed, there were so...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
Addis
Born in Addis Ababa in 1970 and growing up in Sweden, Lemma has been making music since his teens but...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
