Reviews

On 'Conscious Love', his second long player, Dutch-Surinamese reggae artist Joggo delivers exactly what the album title promises: a mix of conscious roots tracks ('Come Down', 'Revolution Warriors', 'Rasta Deh Pan The Rise'.

If the past few months Glitterbeat Records took us far off and exotic places like Mali and Thailand, then for its latest release the label remained a little closer to home.

Yasmine Hamdan currently lives in Paris where she focusses on a solo career, but at the end of the nineteen nineties together with Zeid Hamdan (no relation) the Lebanese singer formed Soapkills, Beirut's first indie band.

The group of Jamaican artists that have become the face of the so-called "roots revival", keeps expanding.

Chouk Bwa Libète (literally "trunk of the tree of freedom", a reference to a quote by general and leader of the Haitian revolution Toussaint Louverture: "By toppling me they only knocked down the trunk of the tree of freedom of black people; it will grow again from its roots, for they are deep and numerous.

Four-piece band Christophe Rigaud & The High Reeds from Lyon is the latest addition in France's ever expanding reggae landscape.

For 'Alone/Ténéré' Tuareg band Terakaft ("the caravan") joined forces with producer Justin Adams who infused their music with more of a rock vibe.

Den Ojo (born Johan Ojo), a singjay of Belgian-Nigerian descent, began his musical career with Dilbeek based sound system Heartbeat Movement and these days is a member of Belgian Massief.

In all honesty we have to confess never having heard of Ti'Jips, a French singer with Martinican roots, with 'J'fais Ma Part' already presenting his second long player.

For this 7 track 'The Journeyman' EP, Prezident Brown for a second time (in 2012 there was already the similar 'Do Thy Work' EP) joined forces with Sound Killaz Music, the production company of Matthew Radics and Jordan Rivah, the two sons of Jack Radics.