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Senegal's Etoile de Dakar featuring Youssou N'Dour and south London's Yaaba Funk
by Chris May
The birth of mbalax in Senegal towards the close of the 1970s, and a 2010 highlife/funk hybrid from south London, show how the embrace of imported styles by African musicians can enrich the continent's music. Etoile de Dakar featuring Youssou N'Dour Once Upon a Time in Senegal: The Birth of Mbalax 1979-1981 ...
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: I Speak Fula
by Chris May
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba I Speak Fula Sub Pop! 2010 Much has been made of the symbiosis between traditional Malian and roots North American musics, of which the “desert blues" of guitarist Ali Farka Toure (1939-2006) provides convincing evidence. Any remaining doubts about west African savannah-belt culture ...
Franco & Le TPOK Jazz: Francophonic 2: Africa's Greatest: A Retrospective: Vol.2: 1980 - 1989
by Chris May
Franco and Le TPOK Jazz Francophonic 2: Africa's Greatest: A Retrospective: Vol.2: 1980 - 1989 Sterns 2009 The Congolese guitarist, singer, bandleader and composer Francois Luambo Makiadi--most commonly known as Franco but with a raft of other nicknames including The Grand Master and The Sorcerer of The Guitar--had ...
Amadou & Mariam: The Magic Couple
by Chris May
Amadou & Mariam The Magic Couple Wrasse Records 2009 For most people outside Mali, and maybe France, Amadou & Mariam came out of nowhere in 2005 with Dimanche a Bamako (Nonesuch). But the duo had released three other, Paris-recorded CDs before their Manu Chao-produced breakthrough, which were themselves ...
Keletigui et ses Tambourinis: The Syliphone Years: 1968 - 1976
by Chris May
Keletigui et ses Tambourinis The Syliphone Years: 1968 - 1976 Sterns 2009 In Memoriam: Keletigui Traore: 26 May 1934 - 11 November 2008 The fourth release in the Sterns label's series anthologising Guinea's tradition-rooted “authenticite" bands of the 1960s and 1970s follows close on the death ...
Tony Allen: Secret Agent
by Chris May
Tony Allen Secret Agent World Circuit 2009 It's been a good six months for Afrobeat, the turbulent jazz meets funk meets West African roots music associated with the Nigerian singer Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938 - 1997) and his bands Afrika 70 and Egypt 80. There have been cracking ...
The Rail Band: Belle Epoque Vol. 3 - Dioba
by Chris May
Rail BandBelle Epoque Vol. 3 - DiobaSterns Africa2009 With Belle Epoque Vol. 3 - Dioba, the estimable Sterns Africa label has completed another definitive archive project documenting West Africa's post-colonial “belle epoque" of the 1960s and 1970s. The three two-disc volumes in the series present the hits, highlights ...
Ba Cissoko / Extra Golden: Coast to Coast
by Chris May
Third albums from Guinea's Ba Cissoko and the Kenyan/American collaboration Extra Golden prove, respectively, to be uplifting and just a little disappointing. Ba Cissoko Seno Sterns Africa 2009 Like the kora played by its eponymous leader, the music made by Ba Cissoko is graceful, rooted ...
Oumou Sangare: A New Masterpiece from Mali
by Chris May
Oumou Sangare Seya World Circuit 2009 Before European-derived concepts of career management became widespread among African recording artists, following the emergence of the world music movement in the late 1980s and 1990s, a musician's stature could be measured by the frequency of the albums he (or, less often, ...
Franco and Le TPOK Jazz: Francophonic - Africa's Greatest - A Retrospective - Vol. 1 1953 - 1980
by Chris May
Franco and Le TPOK Jazz Francophonic - Africa's Greatest - A Retrospective - Vol. 1 1953 - 1980 Sterns 2008 During his 35 year recording career, the Congolese guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader Franco released several hundred singles and around 150 albums. Where does the anthologist begin, and ...
