Reviews
Church of Kidane Mehret
In the years since the death of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru in 2023, we have been lucky to hear archival...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Useza
Among the Shona communities of northeastern Zimbabwe, the matepe, a type of mbira, is used to evoke trance states to...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Man Shall Be Free
This Ghanaian group’s debut is a fresh collection of highlife jams. Guitar lines unwind through the compositions like a labyrinthine...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Tsapiky! Modern Music from Southwest Madagascar
You only need listen to a couple of seconds of tsapiky to hear that it’s a party. The style (which...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
New African Orleans
On his sixth album, this bass-playing son of a 60s Senegalese brass-band star sets out “westward [to] begin a musical...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Ma Gitala
It’s been a while since we last had a record from our favourite Malawian busking duo, but Madalitso Band are...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Chule Chule Iwe
Gasper Nali’s third album arrives six years after the previous Zoona Malawi and continues his singular musical journey from the...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Balabeatz
It’s the fourth album in almost ten years for this band created in Toulouse when balafon virtuoso Seydou Diabaté and...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Tiya
Singer, pianist and composer Lilas Lafleur cut her musical teeth as a backing singer for her uncle, Congolese soukous guitar...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
