Reviews
Soweto
Robson Banda and the New Black Eagles
Robson Banda started his career as a member of Thomas Mapfumo’s first group Acid Band. In Zimbabwe the chimurenga music...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: January/February/2022
Ke Haber
Israeli artist ‘Nani’ Noam Vazana sings and writes in Ladino, a Romance language spoken by Spanish Jews in the 15th...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/February/2022
Desert Equations: Azax Attra
Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz
Back in 1986, Iranian singer Sussan Deyhim was in New York, working with electronics and sampling multi-instrumentalist Richard Horowitz. They...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/February/2022
The Capitol Session ’73
After being unceremoniously dumped from their opening slot on a Sly and the Family Stone tour, Bob Marley and the...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: January/February/2022
Slåttepiano II
Ingfrid Breie Nyhus grew up in a family where Norwegian folk music was all around. It may be in her...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/February/2022
Songs for Leena: Improvisations on the Hopi Long Flute
The cloud of mystery around the Hopi long flute has been an inspiration for veteran flautist Gary Stroutsos for a...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: January/February/2022
Bird Like Men
The debut album from this new Aotearoa (New Zealand) quartet brings together four distinctive Kiwi artists: female Māori singer-musicians and...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2022
Giant + Guitar
Wewantsounds continues its remarkable work in excavating long deleted Arabic albums of the 1970s and reissuing them on LP (and...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: January/February/2022
