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Review of Radio Lusaka

Radio Lusaka

Alick Nkhata

Mississippi Records

Rating: ★★★★

Alick Nkhata was a World War Two veteran, a freedom fighter against colonialism, a singer-musician who led the Lusaka Radio...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2025

Review of XXX

XXX

Söndörgő

Top of the World

GroundUP Records

Rating: ★★★★

The latest album from Hungarian tambura band Söndörgő isn’t triple X-rated, but it does mark their 30th anniversary. Their name...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2025

Review of La Giostra

La Giostra

Kërkim

Liburia Records

Rating: ★★★

Kërkim (Albanian for ‘Research’) is an Apulian five-piece outfit augmented with a few guests. The result might be wrongly filed...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2021

Review of Instar

Instar

Nancy Kerr

Little Dish Records

Rating: ★★★★

Ecology, politics, and the rigours and inequities of the present framed by the struggles and injustices of the past are...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2016

Review of Weapon of Choice

Weapon of Choice

Airileke

Top of the World

Wantok Musik

Rating: ★★★★

Airileke Ingram is a Melbourne-based percussionist/producer who's been omnipresent in the Australian world music scene since the mid-90s. Raised in...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of London’s Calling

London’s Calling

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Culture Clash

Rating: ★★★

The two weeks of sport at the core of the London Olympics seem to have spawned a summer-long fiesta of...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Do Not Obey

Do Not Obey

Baba Zula

Gulbaba Music

Rating: ★★★

It's 20 years since Murat Ertel and Levent Akman founded the Istanbul-based psychedelic band Baba Zula. Firmly ensconced in that...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2016

Review of Dilhayat Kalfa: Eserleri Classics

Dilhayat Kalfa: Eserleri Classics

Lale Kadınlar Topluluğu

Kalan Müzik

Rating: ★★★★

As well as being a composer of distinction and an instrumentalist in the Ottoman court at the beginning of the...

Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: May/2018

Review of Everyday Salama

Everyday Salama

Sarazino

Cumbancha

Rating: ★★

Manu Chao seems to have become for the 21st century what Bob Marley was to the late 20th century in...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Frankie and the No-Go Road

Frankie and the No-Go Road

Rita Hosking

Rita Hosking

Rating: ★★★

A concept album that follows the trials and tribulations of an everyman hero named Frankie in his struggles through life,...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2016

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