Reviews

School of life

Daara J Family

All great family stories are marked by rivalry and conflict as well as profound coherence. The last seven years in...

Reviewed by Katharina Lobeck Kane in issue: July/2010

Uncle

Frank Yamma

Many reviewers judged the indigenous Pitjantjatjara singer-songwriter Frank Yamma's 2010 acoustic opus Countryman to be a masterpiece. The intervening years...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2015

Sunnyside

Seaman Dan

Following the release of Henry ‘Seaman’ Dan’s 2009 ‘farewell’ album Sailing Home, which won the ARIA award (Australia’s Grammys) for...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Natural Mind

Soname

Anyone who's read Child of Tibet, the moving autobiography of Tibetan singer-songwriter Soname [reviewed in #39], will appreciate the extent...

Reviewed by Mark Trewin in issue: March/2013

FA-5

FA-5

The latest Cuban Classic is a strange affair: the disco-funk outfit manage to sound oddly reminiscent of 80s UK jazz-funk...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2024

Kaybola

Islandman

Kaybola means something like ‘Let's Get Lost’ in Turkish. It is the second album by Istanbul trio Islandman. The idea...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: July/2020

El Terreno

Jacob Gurevitsch

Jacob Gurevitsch makes sure to stress he is not a flamenco musician – in spite of often being presented as...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2024

Jumbie in the Jukebox

Kobo Town

‘I would choose to live back when calypso brought the news’, sings Drew Gonsalves in the opening seconds of Jumbie...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2013

Antibalas

Antibalas

Founded in 1997 in Brooklyn, Antibalas have become one of the US-based Afro¬beat icons and their latest self-titled album proves...

Reviewed by Alex Petropoulos in issue: October/2012

World Music

Joseph Tawadros

Still in his early 30s, Australian-Egyptian oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros has already released a dozen albums, three of which won...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2016