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.
Friday, April 24 2009
Various Artists: Marvellous Boy: Calypso From West Africa
The tracks are stubbornly various, each song unexpected.
Thursday, July 10 2008
Various Artists: Living is Hard
Living is Hard is a compilation that deserved to be made, not only because the music is beautiful and worth hearing, but because it offers us a glance into the idea of continuity, of the flow of time.
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.
