Reviews
Kaira
Toumani Diabaté | Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté
This was the album that created an icon. The late Toumani Diabaté released his debut Kaira in 1988 and it...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
A.O.E.I.U (An Ordinary Exercise in Unity)
Florence Adooni is a singer born to the Frafra people of northeast Ghana. She grew up performing in church choirs...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Baarakelaw
Samba Touré may have started out playing alongside his mentor, the legendary Ali Farka Touré, but has gone on to...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Mahavélouz
La Réunion’s maloya music has provided fertile ground for electronic producers looking to inject the genre’s trancelike rhythms onto sub-heavy...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Indumiso YabeNguni
Ntuthuko Ndebele – aka Mthuthu – began setting his lyrics to house music in collaboration with various South African DJs...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
A Dance More Sweetly Played
It’s rare, as a reviewer, to be sent an album you’ll have on repeat. A Dance Sweetly Played is such...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Ponda
With Ponda, Cameroonian pianist and singer Patrick Bebey delivers a record that seamlessly fuses jazz, African tradition and Western folk...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Tears of Injustice
Mdou Moctar, dubbed ‘the Hendrix of the Sahara’ for his blistering electric guitar riffs, has, on this acoustic companion piece...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Moda Antiga
On this, her third album, the Cape Verdean singer hailed as a worthy successor to the great Cesária Évora focuses...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Idrache (Traces of the Past)
With the members of Tinariwen scattered around southern Algeria while they take refuge from the political unrest in Mali ,...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
