Reviews
Sé Nam
The party never stops on Sé Nam, an album designed to sweat to. While there's an edge to tracks like...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
N'Darila
Member of esteemed Bamana jeli (griot) lineage from the village of Garana in Segu, Mali, Kankou made her debut in...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Toumaro
If it wasn’t for Salif Keita, Kassé Mady Diabaté would surely have been recognised as the finest male vocalist in...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Rwanda Sings With Strings
On the surface, the fifth album by Rwandan duo The Good Ones is a departure from the usual modus operandi...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Fikira
Fikira sees the meeting of musical traditions both between and beyond the islands of Réunion and Mayotte, two French overseas...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Tidiani Koné et le T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo
Tidiani Koné et le T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo
Malian multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger Tidiani Koné was one of the key figures in the development of modern African music....
Reviewed in issue September/2025
For Those Left Behind
Recorded in the shadow of Lesotho’s Famo gang violence, For Those Left Behind is a defiant, dizzying triumph. The five-piece...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
African Jazz invites OK Jazz
There were two main protagonists in the evolution of Congolese popular music in the 1960s: Joseph Kabasele (alias Grand Kallé),...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Jawaya Jathum
Jawaya Jathum translates as ‘The Guitarist and The Music Lover’, these being Polycarp Otieno (aka Fancy Fingers) and sweetly soulful...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Nu Sta Li
Following in the footsteps of influential groups like Bulimundo, Luxembourg-based Cape Verdeans Grupo Pilón have been updating the funaná genre...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
