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The Nubians’ global village
17/05/2011
The Franco-Cameroonian duet Les Nubians, who settled in the States after the success of their 1999 album Princesses nubiennes, express...
What’s left of Bob Marley?
11/05/2011
It’s thirty years since the king of Jamaican musician Bob Marley died on 11 May 1981. The star that personifies the sound of reggae shone far beyond the world of music...
Ray Lema’s take on globalisation
09/05/2011
With his new album, 99, Congolese pianist Ray Lema has moved away from the intimate world of solos and trios to get back with a band...
Malajube tone down their act
05/05/2011
After the fairly tortuous flavours of Labyrinthes (2009), this spring the Quebec rock quartet Malajube, serve up some more accessible, pop-focused fare with La Caverne...
La Phaze enter a new phase
03/05/2011
After veering into anti-establishment punk rock, La Phaze have turned their image around with Psalms and Revolution...
Tels Alain Bashung
29/04/2011
Rarely has a tribute album aroused such interest. Tels Alain Bashung looks back in an ethereal way at Bashung’s repertoire from the 90s...
On the road with Moriarty
26/04/2011
More than three years after their first album Gee Whiz But This Is A Lonesome Town, Moriarty has returned with a second, self-produced opus, The Missing Room...
Tamikrest, between heritage and strategy
22/04/2011
In Kidal, at the start of the Mali desert, each musician is to a certain extent a child of the Tinariwen, the engine of the Touareg scene. In Toumastin – their second album – Tamikrest acknowledge...
Seun Kuti, the prince of Afrobeat
21/04/2011
Afrobeat conquered America, Europe and even Japan forty years after its creation...
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo
20/04/2011
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo’s latest album Cotonou Club, the finishing touch to the group’s renaissance, has been released twenty months after the group’s first concerts...
The Magic System way
15/04/2011
Along with the promise of summer comes Touté Kalé, the sixth album by Ivoirian ambiance makers, Magic System. It may not be very original, ...
Yelle and the boys
11/04/2011
Internet revelation Yelle and her two partners form one of the rare French-singing bands to be a hit overseas. Their recipe: naïve, raw lyrics, some skilful electro pop, ...
Alpha Blondy licks his wounds
06/04/2011
Exactly thirty years after he first emerged in the Ivoirian media, reggaeman Alpha Blondy called on the solid, united band that has accompanied him live for years to record Vision, ...
The teachings of Maurice Kirya
04/04/2011
As he came to the end of a long tour of Africa that took in 22 venues, and in the lead-up to his final concert in Paris on 4 April, the Ugandan singer Maurice Kirya gave RFI Music...
Iness Mezel, over the Channel
01/04/2011
In her new Berber-rock album, Beyond The Trance, Iness Mezel sings mainly in French and turns to Britain for the production...
Wendo Kolosoy
31/03/2011
Sold together in a single box entitled Botyiaki Ntembe, and remastered for the occasion, the two albums, Nani Akoleka Wendo? and Banaya papa Wendo by the singer Wendo Kolosoy...
Djmawi Africa new wave
28/03/2011
Since the end of the great raï era, the Gnawa Diffusion craze and the beginnings of rap, there had been little for young Algerian music enthusiasts to get excited about...
Bertignac, back on the line
25/03/2011
His new album, Grizzly, hits hard and strong. Singing lyrics by Boris Bergman, Téléphone’s former guitarist,...
JB Mpiana brings us the horse dance
23/03/2011
After co-founding Wenge Musica, the flagship Congolese music group from the late eighties, singer JB Mpiana has set out to defend his star status with a double album, Soyons sérieux...
The Do, shamans in the night.
21/03/2011
The last time we saw The Do (Dan + Olivia) they were basking in sunshine on the cover of their first album A Mouthful...
Ishumar 2 compilation
17/03/2011
The compilation Ishumar 2, nouvelles guitares touarègues is a yardstick measuring the progress of Tuareg guitar playing...
Sayon Bamba’s nomad planet
11/03/2011
From Conakry to Brussels, the Guinean singer Sayon Bamba Camara is a young woman of the world...
Enrico Macias’s ongoing journey
08/03/2011
In the run-up to the 2012 anniversary that will mark his 50 years in the business, Enrico Macias has released Voyage d’une mélodie...
Boubacar Traoré
03/03/2011
His rare talent, both live and in the studio, helped turn Boubacar Traoré into a young people’s idol at the time of his country’s independence. ...
Maurice Kirya’s African journey
02/03/2011
From Libreville to Bobo Dioulasso, via Douala, Accra and Cotonou and other places, the Ugandan singer Maurice Kirya has been continuing the African tour he started one month ago...
Keren Ann, crime time
28/02/2011
For her sixth studio album, Keren Ann has opted for her lucky number, 101, and a film noir atmosphere dominated by the colour red...
Irma
25/02/2011
After being discovered on the internet, young Cameroonian singer Irma signed up with the fan-funded music label My Major Company...
The Karindula Sessions
23/02/2011
More than just a simple album accompanied by a DVD, The Karindula Sessions provides a pretty faithful documentary...
Tahiti 80
21/02/2011
After breaking away from their record label, the members of Tahiti 80 have come up with a new album, The Past, The Present & The Possible ...
Charles Trenet’s underwhelming anniversary
18/02/2011
On 18 February 2001, one of the biggest revolutionaries of 20th century French chanson gave up his final fight...
French music seen from abroad February 2011
15/02/2011
Does music make for mellower morals? The answer is, not always...
Yankee Dick Annegarn
11/02/2011
One year after Soleil du soir, Dick Annegarn has brought out an album featuring covers of folk and blues greats, entitled Folk Talk...
Bakhan, Mauritanian messenger
10/02/2011
The singer Bakhan, a finalist in the 2009 RFI Awards, has released a first, self-produced album, Ndeysan...
Maurice Kirya under Malabo’s charm
07/02/2011
The winner of the 2010 RFI Découvertes award, Maurice Kirya, has just commenced the first part of a tour...
Loy Ehrlich’s music fusion
04/02/2011
He likes to move around the musical map: from West African Cosmos to Band of Gnawa, taking in Touré Kunda and Hadouk Trio amongst others on the way...
Larbi Dida
02/02/2011
After a long career singing with the Orchestre national de Barbès, Algerian raï musician Larbi Dida unveils some more personal choices with his own second album, Boug Boug...
Têtes Raides take us off to tomorrow
31/01/2011
The three-year wait, which was one year longer than usual, had become excruciating. Têtes Raides are back at last with their new studio album, L’An demain...
Sidi Touré
27/01/2011
The unassuming face of Malian music and former lead of the Songhaï Stars de Gao, singer and guitarist Sidi Touré has gone back to basic, ...
Nolwenn Leroy: Bretonne triumphs
26/01/2011
With a collection of classic numbers sung in Breton, French and English, Nolwenn is once more enjoying the taste of success after the pop intermission of her previous album.
Debademba family united
25/01/2011
In Bambara, Debademba means big family. It was in the Parisian neighbourhood of Belleville that this family got together, when a Burkinabé guitarist, ...
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