Reviews
Ser Fado
There's no beating around the bush: Telmo Pires’ second fado effort makes a poor case for his defence. It is...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
The Treasure Isle Ska Albums Collection
The international popularity of ska launched Jamaica's music industry in the early 1960s and one of the big players on...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019
Bird's Nest
Their 2012 debut Waterbound and self-titled second album from two years later were both judged ‘Instrumental Album of the Year’...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Filament
In 2010, an American clarinettist began to compose original semi-classical Indian pieces for the clarinet. Under the tutelage of the...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: November/2015
Kings Left Behind
Kings Left Behind is the fourth album from New York-based instrumental collective Ikebe Shakedown. Many of the band's members are...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: November/2019
Fire
Fiery for sure, this bold, all-female, Anglo-Irish bluegrass quintet have made quite a start to their career. They formed in...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2018
Africainement Vôtre
Magic System, the Ivory Coast's most successful proponents of zouglou – a mix of zouk, ragga and soca music –...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Diamonds on the Water
After two years touring and picking upa brace of awards for Ragged Kingdom, Oysterband's reunion collaboration with June Tabor, Diamonds...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2014
Sycophantic Friends
Attentive listeners may have first heard Atamina on the 2016 compilation This is Kologo Power!, on which he appeared alongside...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2018
Father Creeper
Singer, rapper, songwriter, producer and instrumentalist Mathambo (real name Nthato Mokgata) was born and raised in Soweto. I was about...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2012
