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Review of The Koka Koka Sex Battalion – Music from Tanzania 1975-1980

The Koka Koka Sex Battalion – Music from Tanzania 1975-1980

Vijana Jazz Band

Top of the World

Sterns

Rating: ★★★★

It's gratifying to know that some record labels are still able to recognise the value of compilations of vintage, previously...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012

Review of A Message from Mozambique

A Message from Mozambique

Juju | JuJu

Strut

Rating: ★★★★★

Fifty years ago, change was brewing. The outrage piqued by US-backed war and civil war in Africa, by racism, injustice...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2023

Review of Quinto

Quinto

Antonio Zambujo

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

Little by little, Antonio Zambujo has been expanding his musical universe up to the point where it doesn't really matter...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Deeper in the Well

Deeper in the Well

Eric Bibb

Dixiefrog

Rating: ★★★★

Eric Bibb: son of Leon Bibb, a fixture in the folk revival scene of the 1960s; nephew of John Lewis,...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2012

Review of Bollywood Remembers Laxmikant Pyarelal

Bollywood Remembers Laxmikant Pyarelal

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Saregama CDNF 138165-6

Rating: ★★★

Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma, who began their musical careers as mandolin player and violinist, formed the composer...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Hayvan Gibi

Hayvan Gibi

Baba Zula

Night Dreamer

Rating: ★★★

The intimacy of hearing – and seeing – Baba Zula Live has Lately surpassed the experience of Listening to some...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2020

Review of What Makes Bob Holler

What Makes Bob Holler

Hot Club Of Cowtown

Top of the World

Proper Records

Rating: ★★★★

There can be few outfits whose name describes their modus operandi quite as fittingly as Hot Club Of Cowtown. If...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Santiago de Cuba: La Reina del ‘Son’

Santiago de Cuba: La Reina del ‘Son’

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Frémeaux & Associés

Rating: ★★★★

Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city on the gorgeous, beleaguered Caribbean island. The capital of the Santiago de...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of 1988

1988

Archie Roach

ABC 1791253

Rating: ★★★★

A towering presence in Australian music for two decades, indigenous singer-songwriter Archie Roach’s 1990 debut album Charcoal Lane emotionally connected...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2010

Review of Afro Future Funk

Afro Future Funk

Mamud Band

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

One of the glories of modern world music is the way in which global rhythms have become totally cosmopolitan. To...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

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