Reviews
Thumbs on the Outside
Michael Baird | Michael Baird & Pino Basile
Born in Zambia and based in the Netherlands, percussionist Michael Baird is an intrepid curator of African field recordings and...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Funky Africa
Compared to, say, Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim, Almon Memela is not a name much celebrated in the pantheon of...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Finish the Sun
Shane Cooper & MABUTA are often referred to as part of a new wave of South African jazz artists. But...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Boko a Ko
Formed in 2015 by the Ghanaian veteran Ebo Taylor, whose 1970s catalogue has been extensively reissued over recent years, the...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan’s Red Sea Coast
A unique instrument is always eye-catching, and Noori’s incredible self-made (literally) fusion of an electric guitar and a tambour (lyre)...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Antologia, Vol 1
When it comes to vintage dance music from the tiny Atlantic African islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, it would...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Don’t Give Up
Born in Kinshasa, Jason Tamba, who began playing guitar at the age of seven on a homemade instrument, went on...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Dan Masks
Back in 1984, the renowned ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp noted the tension he felt between his scientific analysis ‘and the pleasure...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Tichazomuona
This is a very welcome reissue in vinyl and digital download formats of a wonderful album of Zimbabwean mbira (thumb...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Quicksand
The French producer Philippe Sanmiguel moved to Bamako 16 years ago and has since produced a raft of fine albums...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
