Reviews
Safari Boots
Safari Boots are a simple trio of guitar, bass and drums performing African guitar music with influences of predominantly Congolese...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
20 Years
‘As you know, we play music of various countries and peoples,’ says vocalist Mitia Khramtsov in Russian on the live...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Through the Wild
For their second album, this Americana-leaning group have stepped unabashedly into festival-friendly folk-pop-rock, complete with bold, dramatic choruses and songs...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Lemma
Hailing from the Saoura region of southern Algeria, Lemma are a group of 11 female artists whose name, in their...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
El Ndjoum
Algerian singer Sofiane Saidi and Mazalda, a rai-crazy band of seven funky exponents of electronic and acoustic sounds, collaborate successfully...
Reviewed by Marwan Shamiyeh in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Muutused/Zminy
Svjata Vatra were formed in 2005 when Ukrainian singer and trombonist Ruslan Trochynskyi moved to Estonia and teamed up with...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Memory Drop
After losing such strong musical personalities as founding members Sophie Solomon and Lemez Lovas, a less dedicated and stubborn band...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Victoria Hanna
Victoria Hanna was born into an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family deep in the heart of Jerusalem. On one side of the...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
As the World Turns
Plenty has happened to the world in the 15 years since Black Uhuru last released a studio album – much...
Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Zoona Malawi
As Gasper Nali hoists his ten-foot, homemade babatoni, we clearly have a candidate for unusual instrument of the month: it...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
