Album review: Maâlem Mahmoud Guinéa – Colours of the Night
Colours of the Night is a peek into the original Gnawa music, played in the traditional manner, using traditional material, to achieve, however it might…
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Album review: Fanga/Maâlem Abdallah Guinéa – Fangnawa Experience
Fangnawa Experience is not quite erudite but not quite pop either, and can just as easily be listened to and appreciated from both perspectives. It…
Album Review: Jupiter and Okwess – Kin Sonic
For all its poverty and deprivation, the Congo, as a land whose people are largely considered worthless to the global market, offers the musicians who…
Sleeve City Goes to the LEAF Festival
It was Subaru mating season. Tom and I stepped out of the car to find ourselves absolutely surrounded by Subarus, new and old, and not…
Concert Impressions: Habib Koité at Germantown Performing Arts Center, November 16, 2017
I don’t often get the opportunity to see music live—my tastes are far too eccentric for the sheltered, conservative Memphis music scene, awash in country…