Music from Africa is having its moment thanks to the likes of chart-topping Nigerian Afro-pop or the gospel and house fusion of amapiano, a South African electronic music genre filling clubs from Johannesburg to Ibiza.
Another sound, more gentle yet no less immersive, also doing the rounds is African classical music.
Bringing this rich and underappreciated form to light is Nigerian-Romanian pianist Rebeca Omordia who, for the past decade, has been unearthing and recording compositions by some of the continent’s influential past and present…
