Tuesday, September 6 2011
Various Artists: Highlife Time Vol. 2
Essential West African music that spanned generations and influenced many. Look for it in your record store’s smallest or most invisible sections.
Sunday, May 23 2010
Sweet Talks: The Kusum Beat
Everything on The Kusum Beat is superb: sparking, tight, playful, fresh.
Monday, January 25 2010
Various Artists: Ghana Special
Following the success of the Ethiopiques compilations, here's another stellar collection of popular African music recordings from the '60s and '70s. Highly recommended.
Friday, April 24 2009
Various Artists: Marvellous Boy: Calypso From West Africa
The tracks are stubbornly various, each song unexpected.
Wednesday, October 1 2008
Seprewa Kasa: Seprewa Kasa
This album is all soothe and salve, looking back to the heyday of highlife.
Tuesday, July 8 2008
Various: Black Stars
Black Stars is an adeptly compiled hiplife snapshot, giving us a sampling of recent arrivals like Tic Tac, as well as godfather figures such as Reggie Rockstone.
Thursday, May 3 2007
Shes Gone by Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes' first novel, She's Gone, is an awkward love story.


































