Joel Dwek
MALI: Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux - Les Ambassadeurs
The swansong for one of Mali's finest musical exports, Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux demonstrate exactly why they are still a world...
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Danny Wiser
Apr 18, 20213 min read
TONGA/AUSTRALIA: You Make Me Believe - Joel Havea
Havea's independently released debut album is a set of genuinely uplifting and engaging tunes The sense of wanderlust and adventure that...
Joel Dwek
Apr 16, 20215 min read
DJIBOUTI: The Dancing Devils of Djibouti - Groupe RTD
The first Djiboutian album recorded for international release, Groupe RTD announce a fascinating music culture onto the global scene...
Joel Dwek
Apr 16, 20213 min read
TAIWAN: Town - The Fur.
Consummate pop music performed perfectly - but is there enough of it to satisfy? The first song on Taiwanese indie band The Fur.’s 2018...
Joel Dwek & Danny Wiser
Apr 15, 20215 min read
NIGERIA: Sounds From The Other Side - WizKid
Wizkid establishes himself as one of the mighty trio of Afrobeats superstars, putting the genre into the Western public conciousness in...
Danny Wiser
Apr 13, 20213 min read
MAURITIUS: Cassiya II - Cassiya
The wonderful music on this sega album serves to remind us of both the perils of slavery but allows us to celebrate the resilience of...
Joel Dwek
Apr 12, 20213 min read
MALTA: Minutes of a Lifetime - Airport Impressions
Indie rock that musically harks back to grunge and classic rock, there is much to enjoy in this well-made album Though I adore rock music...
Danny Wiser
Apr 12, 20214 min read
UGANDA: Exile - Geoffrey Oryema
Oryema tackles the difficult theme of being exiled from one's homeland using the emotions from his personal hardship to guide him through...
Danny Wiser
Apr 5, 20214 min read
BANGLADESH: Trimatrik - Aurthohin
A tapestry of rock music in which Aurthohin dip Bangladesh's toe into the sea of hard-rock in style Growing up in the UK I took for...
Danny Wiser
Apr 3, 20213 min read
GRENADA: Lovely Day - David Emmanuel
Jazz singer Emmanuel blends together Caribbean music culture with soul, funk and pop, with one delicious Easter egg hidden at the end of...
Joel Dwek
Apr 2, 20214 min read
ZIMBABWE: The Exorcism of a Spinster - Hope Masike
Breaking through boundaries in multiple senses, the Zimbabwean musician and singer shines a light on feminist issues in her native...
Joel Dwek
Apr 1, 20213 min read
SPAIN: El Sentimiento Garrapatero que nos Traen las Flores - Los Delinqüentes
The unique 'tick-ish' feeling is something that these Andalusian flamenco-rockers transmit in abundance Formed in Cádiz in 1998,...
Danny Wiser
Mar 30, 20214 min read
BENIN: Ayé - Angelique Kidjo
The Afro-pop superstar combines disparate American genres together seamlessly, highlighting their African origins Angelique Kidjo is a...
Joel Dwek
Mar 30, 20213 min read
TAJIKISTAN: Lalaiki Pamir - Oleg Fesov
A bastion of Pamir culture, Fesov helps preserve his culture with this accomplished pop-folk fusion record Graduating from the Dushanbe...
Joel Dwek
Mar 28, 20215 min read
HAITI: HaitiaNola - Lakou Mizik
Combining their fearsome talents with New Orleans-based musicians, Lakou Mizik aim to highlight cultural links to the US, while also...
Joel Dwek & Danny Wiser
Mar 21, 20213 min read
VATICAN CITY: Missa Papae Marcelli - Coro della Cappella Sistina
Vocal talent that earns the right to reverberate against Michelangelo's stunning frescos Danny: In recent centuries, Europe has seen its...
Danny Wiser
Mar 20, 20213 min read
SOUTH KOREA: Now - Kim Jung Mi
A wonderful album concept, laden with pastoral sounds and themes, made all the more enticing by her alluring vocals I must admit that on...
Danny Wiser
Mar 19, 20213 min read
JAPAN: Echoes of Japan - Minyo Crusaders
Restoration of a noble Japanese music tradition by way of Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America It is not often that an album leaves me...
Joel Dwek
Mar 18, 20214 min read
SAUDI ARABIA: Dhil-un Taht Shajarat Al-Zaqum - MSYLMA
Synths, industrial beats, smart production - it's electro, but not as we know it My first impressions of Saudi Arabia-based electronic...
Joel Dwek
Mar 17, 20213 min read
THAILAND: Human - Potato
Hard rock mixed with ballads and experimental flourishes, Potato manage to put their own spin on the rock genre Despite the fact that I...
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