Thandiswa Mazwai burst onto the global music scene as the charismatic frontwoman of Bongo Maffin, pioneers of South African kwaito,...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2024
The cultural legacy Oum Kalthoum holds in Egypt and the wider Arab world is impossible to overstate. Beloved by heads...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2023
‘Pokes’ were typos to 14th-century scribes, and it's the rough music of a mistaken world, poked through with holes, that's...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2024
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