Reviews
Mzansi Beat Code
South Africa's Spoek Mathambo is a busy man. The celebrated songwriter and rapper also fronts Pan-African ensemble Batuk and the...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: June/2017
Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988
Fans of Cape Verdean music will be familiar with its typical lack of drums and use of gently strummed cavaquinho,...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: June/2017
Rise Aurora
This debut album from the Sussex folk singer Rosie Hodgson is the culmination of much time on the English folk...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2017
And it Was Good
While I can't claim to have coined it, the term ‘chambergrass’ is the nearly perfect one-word description of the music...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2017
Sài Gòn, Saïgon
Huong Thanh & Franck Tortiller
To Saigon for a postmodern nostalgia trip; here, veteran Vietnamese vocalist Huong Thanh revisits the songs of French colonial Vietnam,...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2017
Protection: Himalayan Buddhist Mantras
Talking to an anthropologist friend, I asked why the West remains so fascinated with Tibet. I learned about Madame Helena...
Reviewed by Thomas Christie Williams in issue: June/2017
Hauptbahnhof
If you've missed out on the past 14 years of Sväng, this would be a good moment to play catch...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2017
ERA
Evidently believing he might not already have enough on his plate with a new album from Mànran only just out,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2017
L'Odyssey
This excellent debut album from Middle Eastern/Caribbean duo Vocal Global qualifies as true world music in every sense. Israeli Noga...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: June/2017
