Reviews
Addis Through the Looking Glass
Given that Dub Colossus's debut, A Town Called Addis, was one of the best albums of 2008 and that this...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: July/2011
Antologia, Vol 1
When it comes to vintage dance music from the tiny Atlantic African islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, it would...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2022
Songs by Geirr Tveitt
This music is fragile, meditative and delicate, with soundscapes leading us into secret, intimate places. The names on the album...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Sins We Made
The second outing from Canadian duo Harrow Fair – Miranda Mulholland (from Great Lake Swimmers) and Andrew Penner (musician and...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Soweto
Robson Banda and the New Black Eagles
Robson Banda started his career as a member of Thomas Mapfumo’s first group Acid Band. In Zimbabwe the chimurenga music...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: January/February/2022
Tombouctou
If you Like your desert blues raw and unmediated and think Tinariwen are over-produced, then AL Bilali Soudan is for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020
Artybonito
The Azueï Movement is a collective of artists spanning the shared island of Hispaniola, home to Haïti and the Dominican...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: March/2022
Louisiana Stomp: 1954-1960 Recordings
Clifton Chenier is one of those rare musicians who pretty much single-handedly created a new genre of music – zydeco....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2017
Nostalgique Kongo: Rumbas Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo & Douala 1950-1960
Congolese rumba can trace its history back to the ports along the great river separating Brazzaville and Kinshasa ’ the...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: May/2019
