Reviews

Africa Soyo

Simo Lagnawi

London-based Gnawa master Simo Lagnawi returns with his latest album, Africa Soyo, a clean, crisp recording – something that's very...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Amazones Power

Les Amazones d'Afrique

Les Amazones d'Afrique are the pan-African female supergroup that wowed the crowds at WOMAD in 2016, commanding attention with the...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Léve Léve: São Tomé & Príncipe Sounds 70s-80s

VARIOUS ARTISTS

São Tomé and Príncipe isn't exactly known as a musical powerhouse nation – Songlines has only ever reviewed one other...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Nakan

Mamadou Diabaté & Percussion Mania

Mamadou Diabaté, not to be confused with the famous Malian kora player with the same name, is a maestro of...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Wakar Alhazai Kano/Mus'en Sofua

Tabansi Studio Band

After recording several albums for various Nigerian labels as the Martins Brothers Dance Band (heard on Soundway's 2004 compilation Afro...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Mazaher

Mazaher

Zar is a ceremony found in various forms across north-east Africa and beyond that involves communicating with and pacifying spirits...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

The Art of the Kora

Jali Nyama Suso

This is an augmented reissue of the first commercial release of solo kora and griot music recorded in 1972. The...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Set Sela

Guiss Guiss Bou Bess

In a part of the world where a music scene is starting to make itself heard, Senegal's Guiss Guiss Bou...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Rejoice

Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela

Two old friends, giants of the African music scene, fuse influences from West and South Africa in this historic, compelling...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Set Sela

Guiss Guiss Bou Bess

In a part of the world where a music scene is starting to make itself heard, Senegal's Guiss Guiss Bou...

Reviewed in issue April/2020