Reviews
Myriad Road
The jazz album is often the second-last refuge of a career on the slide (reggae generally being the final resort...
Reviewed by David Hutcheon in issue: June/2016
Mulatu Steps Ahead
An influential star of the golden age of Ethiopian popular music, Mulatu Astatke was also the first African student at...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2010
Una y Otra Vez
Bruno Garcia is very much of the school of Manu Chao: a punk rocker in Paris in the 1980s of...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2011
Around the Crocodile Pond
Ba Balance are Danish blues-rock guitarist Preben Carlsen and West African percussionist Sal Dibba, and the title of this hard-rocking...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2021
Cuckoo Storm
Marry Waterson & Adrian Crowley
Marry Waterson has delivered an eclectic array of duet recordings over the past decade or so, from 2011’s The Days...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2024
Stone Soup
Cormac Byrne & Adam Summerhayes
This is an audacious piece of work by two accomplished musicians. Adam Summerhayes is a classically trained fiddler with a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2019
Afrika Mamas
One cannot help but be transported to the rolling hills of Zululand when listening to the Afrika Mamas’ latest, self-titled...
Reviewed by Franki Black in issue: June/2016
Obabes beMbube
The five Zimbabwean female singers who make up the a capella group Nobuntu deliver an uplifting and playful listening experience...
Reviewed by Franki Clemens in issue: April/2019
Ekuka
Nyege Nyege Tapes is a small, obscure label based in Kampala, Uganda. They have released a small number of cassettes...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2019
Guwak
The first thing most listeners would think upon hearing young Aboriginal band East Journey is that we’ve heard this before....
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2012
