Reviews
Hote’ Hote’
Now based in Melbourne, Charles Maimarosia hails from the Solomon Islands, and first came to international attention over 20 years...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2025
Africa Express Presents… Bahidorá
Damon Albarn's Africa Express crossed the Atlantic to the Americas for the first time in 2024 to headline the Mexican...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: September/2025
YO:song
The much-missed group SsingSsing was the vehicle that brought Lee Heemoon to international fame, a genre-blending, gender-bending kaleidoscopic take on...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: September/2025
Nineteen Seventy Seven
A second lost album of jazz fusion recorded during the military dictatorship by the ever-influential Grupo Um. Expanding from a...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: April/2026
Into the Loam
From the first opening notes of ‘Ryan’s Rant’, it’s clear this is an unusual take on Irish trad. Into the...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: April/2026
Woradj Alle (Impressions of Ethiopia)
Brooklyn-based violinist Kaethe Hostetter, aka K8A, has been making experimental music grounded in the traditions of Ethiopia for the better...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: May/2026
Heavy Combination 1966–2007
When Kenyan singer and activist Joseph Kamaru passed away in 2018, his grandson (also named Joseph Kamaru) felt an urgent...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: January/2026
World Ballads
This is the latest in Network’s usually excellent two-disc ‘longbox’ series. A decade or so ago, the similarly packaged Desert...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2010
The Crown Prince of Reggae: Singles (1972-1985)
The much-loved Dennis Brown (1957– 1999) was the outstanding solo reggae singer of his generation, his only rival being the...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: March/2011
