Reviews
Ojinga’s Own
Formed in 1971 and still going strong with Eze Rockcliffe remaining at the helm, Yoruba Singers were first among equals...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: November/2023
Neon Colonialismo
It's ten years since musical free radical Batida, aka Pedro Coquenão, exploded into my dance floor set with his Batida...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: December/2022
Dancing Tunes
In their 1990s heyday, the Mancunian roots band combining Caribbean rhythms with traditional British folk songs were a global fixture...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2021
Hikoi/Journey
Richard Nunns, Paul Dyne & Dave Lisik
If 68-year-old Kiwi ethnomusicologist Richard Nunns isn’t careful, he’ll end up appearing on every album made in New Zealand! The...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2013
Fool's Gold
After Vampire Weekend, bring on Fool's Good, America's latest indie rockers to mine African music in search of fresh inspiration....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2010
Kelmti Horra
Is this the sound of post-revolutionary Tunisia? Perhaps. Certainly it is a self-assured, outward-looking and proudly individual debut from a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012
Rima
Ever since the arrival of her genre-bending 90s band The Moahunters, veteran Maori songstress Moana Maniapoto has been one of...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
The Servants' Ball
This exuberantly entertaining album came about after double bass player Ben Nicholls, reading about Sussex concertina player Scan Thester, found...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2020
ONO
Since her 1980s debut, New Zealand Māori singer Moana Maniapoto has remained at the forefront of Aotearoa’s Indigenous music scene,...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2025
MRA
Emel Mathlouthi is the Tunisian-American singer-songwriter and producer who drew the global spotlight with her passionate song ‘Kelmti Horra’ (My...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2024
