Reviews
Creation
When assessing contemporary Aboriginal music in Australia, it's impossible to overstate the importance of singer-songwriter Archie Roach. The tragedies and...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
180° The Remixes
Mulele Matondo's most recent record with Kongo Dia Ntotila was released earlier this year. Entitled 360°, it was a truly...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Deeyah Presents: Iranian Woman
One of the most interesting untold stories (outside Iran) of music after the 1979 revolution is the emergence of an...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: Apr/May/2014
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
