Reviews
Amandla
Zimbabwean singer Shelter Matshelela presents us here with an archetypal bubblegum (township pop) album brim-full of happy, head-nodding tunes. Matshelela...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: November/2018
All Because of Love
Seyed Ali Jaberi & Sina Sarlak
Recorded live in concert at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, this album is a celebration of the...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: November/2018
Botany Bay
This new album of traditional songs from Hertfordshire's Kelly Oliver is produced by Megson's Stuart Hanna, who manages to frame...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: November/2018
Serbian War Songs
Zeitkratzer, Svetlana Spajic, Dragana Tomic & Obrad Milic
This extraordinary, uncompromising and intense collaboration between Berlin-based hyper-contemporary ensemble Zeitkratzer and a few singers specialising in traditional Serbian-language folklore...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: November/2018
Oye Manita
When a 39-year-old Totó La Momposina arrived in Paris in June 1979 as a refugee from Colombia, she had already...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2018
Wawu
A Yalanji woman from Far North Queensland, singer Deline Briscoe has previously sung with her siblings in the Briscoe Sisters,...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2018
Grúňom Hore
What I like about this Slovak band is their total faith in the pastoral culture of their region. Take their...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2018
Exotic Other
Animanz are three musical childhood friends, based in London, who front a collective committed to playing party tunes in which...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2018
Zoo of Songs
German group Pulsar Trio have transplanted the emblematic instrument of Hindustani classical music – the sitar – into a northern...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: November/2018
