Africa ExpressBest Africa Express Albums Ranked
8.0
Avg Score
3
Opinions
3
Albums
3
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Summary from 3 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Africa Express’s catalog across 3 albums from 3 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated Africa Express album is EGOLI (2019) with a 8.0/10 average from 3 ratings.
EGOLI
“Five albums in, and Africa Express – Damon Albarn’s cross-cultural collaboration engine – has pitched up in Johannesburg, known as Egoli in Xhosa. It could be the best iteration yet of this speed-dating pop writer’s camp, in which a handful of UK and US artists (Nick Zinner, a returnee, plus Super Furry Gruff Rhys and grime MC Ghetts, to name three) and a 20-stong cast of local producers, musician”
EGOLI
“Earlier this year, Africa Express played one of their biggest gigs to date at Waltham Forest in Leytonstone, east London. It was a diverse jamboree of artists that included Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell, South Africa’s Moonchild Sanelly – who describes her sound as “future ghetto punk” – and Blur’s Damon Albarn, the collective’s most recognisable name on these shores. The date of the gig was particu”
EGOLI
“Egoli is the Xhosa name for Johannesburg, literally translated as ‘City of Gold’. The city’s song mines have remained largely unquarried by Western ears thus far, but this latest instalment in the Africa Express series of musicological excavations might just pave the way for a new frontier rush. Over a seven-week period at the start of 2018, the Damon Albarn-founded project decamped to South Afric”