Month: June 2024
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The Zawose Queens’ long-awaited album ‘Maisha’ – it’s a fantastic fusion of traditional Tanzanian roots, acoustic bliss and modular synth-jams
The Zawose Queens are Leah and Pendo Zawose of the Tanzanian Wagogo people and they sound awesome – using drums, thumb pianos, a chizeze fiddle mirror, the sounds of nature, polyrhythms, captured jams and perhaps most importantly – their enchanting vocals. The grand-daughter and daughter of the late, great musician and singer Hukwe Zawose, were…
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A classy comp’ of Congolese music in Belgium, ‘Les Belgicains: Na Tango Ya Covadia 1964-70’ is a curation of student orchestras in Belgium
This is a fascinating insight into a period of post-colonial musical history and the experiences of trailblazing young Congolese artists in Belgium. The compilation Les Belgicains – Na Tango Ya Covadia 1964-1970 tells the stories of the first Congolese student orchestras – referred to during that time as ‘Les Belgicains’ – and has been supervised…
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Moscow based artist Paita drops enthralling album ‘Southern Man’ – visiting post-punk, dub and ambient fields via electronic experiments – for Fuselab label
Paita is a project of musician and sound producer Kolya Dolgov for the Russian-based Fuselab label – seemingly a very fertile and collaborative stable based on their output and support on this album for this Moscow-based artist. The album features collaborations with label residents FMSAO, Shoom Berez, X.Y.R. , NWIII, as well as guest artists…
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Stunning debut album by Finn Rees – ‘Dawn Is A Melody’ for Mr Bongo is among the very best of jazz albums this year – and is more world class music from Oz
Listen to the wonder of this album – Dawn Is A Melody by Finn Rees – a contender for best (jazz album) of the year, and one that means artists are delivering once again during a year (so far!) of supreme jazz music. There’s been a particular movement of supreme sounds from Antipodean parts, with…
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