Reviews
Are’are’
Hailing from southern Malaita in the Solomon Islands, east of Papua New Guinea, Charles Maimarosia was the original lead singer-songwriter...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: May/2017
Africa Express Presents… The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians & Guests
The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians & Guests
The brief summer tour of European festivals that reunited an orchestra of Syrian musicians scattered by civil war and put...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Xogo
A fusion comprised of Galician folk, cumbia and hip-hop might sound unlikely but, as the second album from French foursome...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
African Homeland: Voices & Rhythms From Zimbabwe and Southern Africa
We're no doubt going to be hearing a lot of music from South Africa in the run-up to the soccer...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2010
Benin Vol 4: Yehouessi Leopold Batteur
TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
When Dahomey gained its independence from its French colonial masters in 1960 and became Benin, a surge of artistic creativity...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2021
Tanbou TouJou Lou
What a superb compilation this is. Record detective Vik Sohonie has worked as a veteran researcher, writer and editor at...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2016
City Beats
The impact of the revolutions that swept the Arab world since 2010 on its musicians have rarely been chronicled or...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: November/2018
Resistance
The hard-hitting sextet from Ottawa struts its stuff again. It may be the band's first all-vocal album and there may...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2015
Feather Spines
An unusual New Zealand collaboration between two Wellington-based female musicians who have been working on this project since 2019, Tāmira...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2022
The Days That Shaped Me
Marry Waterson & Oliver Knight
Marry Waterson and Oliver Knight are the children of Lal Waterson, so grew up in that great singing family that...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2011
