Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoë Conway & John Mc Intyre
This feels like something of a Gaelic supergroup album. It brings together two power couples – Hebridean singer and whistles...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Despite the 82–year reign of Sobhuza II – the “hip king’’ eulogised by South African jazzer Abdullah Ibrahim – Swaziland...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Instantly likeable, this album gets off to a cracking start with a raucous rendition of the classic ‘Jawbone’. Grandad's Favorite...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Most readers will associate Cape Verde with the languid, melancholic mornas made famous by the great singer Cesaria Evora, or...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
The tragedy of West Papua and its peoples’ hopes for eventual independence is an ongoing daily struggle for the native...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2018
Climate change, pandemics, wars… there’s an urgent need to raise people’s spirits, so the joy and optimism of Kolonien’s Till...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: June/2022
Quiet Revolutions is album number two from the UK-based Zambian singer-songwriter Namvula, following 2014's Shiwezwa. She demonstrates a strong voice...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Entoto Band are a Netherlands-based group directed by guitarist Joep Pelt and fronted by Ethiopian singer Helen Mengestu and Eritrean...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2023
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
Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens
This collection of live recordings starts with Mahlathini telling an enthusiastic audience, “we’re going to give you the real Soweto...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2023
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