Reviews
Songs From Badissa
Cameroonian vocal¬ist and multi¬instrumentalist Erik Aliana and his band Korongo Jam are attracting their fair share of attention, and no...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
King of Kwassa Kwassa: The Best of Kanda Bongo Man
Kanda Bongo Man is one of the most successful exponents of the soukous style of music – the exuberant ‘bubblegum’...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
African Soul Revolutionary
Every slick studio release Baaba Maal puts on the market tends to prompt someone to release some unmixed, live or...
Reviewed by Katharina Lobeck Kane in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Music for the Hawaiian Islands Vol 3: Pi’ilani Maui
The third volume of Kuana Torres Kahele's six-part CD series celebrating the musical spirit of individual Hawaiian Islands continues the...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan	 in issue: July/2015
Evolutsiya! 40 Best and Rarest 1991-2016
This double album marks the 25th anniversary of the intriguing phenomenon known as The Ukrainians. The band formed almost by...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2016
The Art of Mandolin
First things first: Simon Mayor is an extraordinarily talented mandolin player. He is clearly a little obsessed: the CD booklet...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2014
The Best Boleros from the Costa Chica
The ‘Costa Chica’, or ‘little coast’, is the stretch of Pacific shore that runs from south of Acapulco to the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2018
For the Love of Tabla
North India’s favourite percussion instrument, the tabla, has always been relegated to being an accompaniment and it was the subservient,...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2022
Zār Songs for the Spirits
Zār is a rite that arrived in Egypt with migration – partly due to slavery – from sub-Saharan East Africa....
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: March/2022
The Best of the SABC Years
Starting her career in the 1950s, Irene Mawela wrote songs for the Dark City Sisters and the Mahotella Queens, was...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2019
