Orchestre Poly-Rythmo review – Benin veterans return in stomping style

The Venue, London
One of west Africa’s finest bands are back with a new album and should become festival favouritesThe 10 musicians came on stage chanting, dressed in matching white and red uniforms, then launched into a tight, confident set that justified their role as the latest lineup of one of west Africa’s finest bands. And yet the group, who hail from Cotonou on the south coast of Benin, have never quite enjoyed the success they deserved. Formed in 1968, in the 70s they became