Four years after her explosive debut album, Codification, Laetitia Shériff has hit the ground running with her eagerly-awaited follow-up, Games Over.

Jean-Louis Murat’s new album, Tristan, turns the clock back several centuries, retelling the tragic medieval tale of those famously star-crossed lovers Tristan and Isolde.

The Cameroonian singer and bass-player Richard Bona - a much sought-after figure on the international music scene these days - has just released the first live album of his career. ...

Emile Biayenda formed Les Tambours de Brazza (literally the Drummers of Brazza) - the group take their name from Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo - back in 1991. ...

Patrick Ruffino, one of the runners-up in RFI’s “Découvertes” talent contest in 2006, has just released an impressive solo debut, Ewa Ka Jo.

Call it a sign of the times, but French-Finnish duo The Do generated the first big buzz around their sound when their song On My Shoulders was used as a soundtrack to a television ad.

Wendo Kolosoy - better known to fans as “Papa Wendo” - made an acclaimed comeback on the world music scene five years ago with a self-titled album. Now he is back in the spotlight with On The Rumba River, ...

Bako Dagnon, one of the best-kept secrets on the Mande music scene, is taking her traditional sound beyond her native Mali at last. The respected female griot* has released five ...

How do you follow the amazing interplanetary success of electro-tango project Gotan Project? By turning to something completely different, of course!

Ben Ricour emerged on the French music scene just under two years ago with his single Vivre à même l’amour. Now, the Parisian troubadour is back in the news with his second album, Ton image. Ricour ...

A young Nigerian singer by the name of Asa (pronounced Asha) is currently causing a stir with a debut eponymous album released on the French label Naïve. ...

Slipping a new Benjamin Biolay album into your CD-player is a bit like going to Creuse for the weekend. You know it’s going to be beautiful, but it risks being a bit monotonous too! ...

Soundiata, the first installment of a three-volume series featuring songs recorded by the Rail Band between 1970 and 1983, gives fans the chance to (re)discover ...

Six years after Proxima Estacion: Esperanza, Manu Chao is finally back in the spotlight with his long-awaited new album, La Radiolina. ...

The Hollywood Porn Stars - a foursome not as their name suggests from Tinseltown but the rather more low-key Liège in Belgium - generated an instant buzz ...

Authenticité, The Syliphone Years is a superb box-set retrospective retracing the history of Guinea’s national and federal orchestras. This fascinating double-CD set delves into the archives of the state-owned label Syliphone

The Orchestre National de Jazz, working in collaboration with conductor Franck Tortiller, have just put the finishing touches to Electrique, the second album in a series devoted ...

On their third album, The Bridge, young, up-and-coming French outfit Livin’ Soul pull off a staggering feat, recreating the sound, the ambience and the exact feel of Jamaican ...

The Rwandan-born Canadian artist Corneille Nyangura – better known to fans as Corneille – is back in the music news this month with his much-anticipated third album, ...

Rumba star Franco is one of Congo’s most influential and political artists. A two-CD release from the Classic Titles collection, offering nearly ...

Samba Ngo, the master of Sebene - a typical Congolese mix of driving guitar and call-and-response choruses - is a man with a message in his music. ...

With nine female writers honing its lyrics and six male producers crafting its melodies to perfection, all Céline Dion had to do on her new album, D’Elles, ...

Like a Phoenix rising from the flames, Sex in Dallas are back in the music news with Perpetual Emotion Maschine, a second album many fans feared would never get made.

The Jackpot, the sixth album by Ceux Qui Marchent Debout more than lives up to its name. The innovative French six-piece, ...

The second album from Alex Gopher - aka the third man of the "French Touch" – is destined to take everyone by surprise. But it's fair to say that ...

When U.K. techno duo Underworld teamed up with French composer Gabriel Yared, a man internationally renowned for his film scores, ...

Malouma's new album, Nour, features a rich melting-pot of sounds with vibrant electric guitars and dance beats weaving in and out of traditional instruments and songs. ...

Dobet Gnahoré's second album is not just an in-depth exploration of pan-African rhythms, not just a celebration of the musicality of several different African languages. ...

Fans of Tuareg music were royally treated at the end of 2006 with a whole series of interesting new releases. Now, after Toumast, the Desert Rebel project and Tartit, ...

The kora wizard and singer, Djeli Moussa Diawara, has gone solo again with Sini, an album suffused with all the ambivalence of this Guinean artist. ...