One of the principle instruments of Mali's griot storytelling tradition is the ngoni (lute), and more than anyone else, Bassekou...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
Musician, poet and filmmaker Baloji was born to a Belgian father and Congolese mother in Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
First released back in 1989, when ‘world music’ was young, this set is as life-enhancing and plain funky as an...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
From Dub Colossus through to the Imperial Tiger Orchestra, British and European bands have understandably been fascinated by Ethiopian music...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
Hervé Samb is a self-taught guitarist and composer from Senegal whose way with harmony and technique has won him considerable...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019
The cover of this album goes a great way to describing the audio treasure that lies inside. A mask representing...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019
Hailing from the Saoura region of southern Algeria, Lemma are a group of 11 female artists whose name, in their...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019
As Gasper Nali hoists his ten-foot, homemade babatoni, we clearly have a candidate for unusual instrument of the month: it...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019
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