Reviews
Sister Pili + 2
Moreno & L’Orchestra First Moja-One
While visiting my brother in Nairobi in 1983, we went to a nightclub and heard Batamba Wenda Morris (aka Moreno)....
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Sarayland
In the 1980s Sarajevo's Sarr e Roma were one of the most prominent Yugoslav Gypsy bands, with a number of...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Ailan Songs Project: Four Winds
Indigenous singer and social historian Jessie Lloyd is the daughter of Joe Geia, a member of pioneering 1970s/80s Aboriginal band...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2022
Quelbe!
Stanley & the Ten Sleepless Knights
A few years after Frémeaux's two-CD compilation Virgin Islands Quelbe and Calypso 1956-60, comes a new release from a contemporary...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: May/2016
Transatlântikèr
Kèr, meaning ‘heart’ in Réunionese Creole and ‘village’ or ‘home’ in Breton, leaves the translation of Transatlântikèr up to some...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: April/2021
Doctor Bird
Now in his mid 70s, the Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian the Mighty Sparrow, still performs, drawing attention to social justice...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: October/2011
Ragged Kingdom
It's 21 years since June Tabor and Oysterband released Freedom & Rain. Ragged Kingdom is a triumphant return that mixes...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2011
Time is Now
Turkish ex-pat Necmi Calvi spent 20 years of his adult life in London; where – under the alias Oojami –...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
