Reviews
Jayme Stone's Lomax Project
Alan Lomax, the American folklorist, ethno-musicologist and filmmaker spent his life travelling the world making field recordings. He is best...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: June/2015
Identity
Hailing from the mining-tourist town of Jabiru, within the Northern Territory’s incredible Kakadu National Park, Black Rock Band follow up...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2021
Andanças
Brazil's gaucho culture is pretty much unknown outside its native country. With globally feted rivals in the shape of bossa...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2011
Flash Company
There’s a fine line between music that’s tight and that which is so polished it has lost its soul. For...
Reviewed by Olivia Haughton in issue: Apr/May/2013
Sentimento Popolare
Camilla Barbarito's musical journey is a rich and meandering one: as a young girl she spent time in Mali, and...
Reviewed by Megan Iacobini de fazio in issue: April/2019
Mon Pays
After three fine solo studio albums and his imaginative collaboration with the Israeli singer-songwriter Idan Raichel, Touré has surely earned...
Reviewed by Nigel Willliamson in issue: October/2013
Wasla
Tarek Abdallah & Adel Shams El-Din
Looking back over the last 20 years, it's amazing how the oud has risen from rank-and-file member of the takht...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2015
Antipody
When is a duo not a duo? When it sounds like a chorus. Okay, as a joke it perhaps doesn’t...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: January/February/2022
Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia
Música Llanera is the music of the vast open expanses of the Colombian plains around the Orinoco River, up in...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
