Reviews
Funeral Songs
There's a bitter aftertaste to this album. The latest in Glitterbeat's acclaimed Hidden Musics series, it should be an absorbing...
Reviewed by Timothy Clarke-Romain in issue: June/2020
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
Stupid Mountain Too Big
‘We call it stringband music because it's just too tedious to try and get into whether it's old-time, bluegrass, ragtime,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2018
Antiphony of the Trees
Laura Cannell | Laura Cannell & Stewart Lee & Friends
Antiphony of the Trees, the seventh record from Laura Cannell, saw a change of scenery for the composer and improvisor....
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2022
Prayer’s Tale: Taiko Drums & Asian Percussion
Joji Hirota | Joji Hirota & The London Taiko Drummers
Joji Hirota is a percussionist, shakuhachi (bamboo flute) player and vocalist who has been presenting Japanese music to worldwide audiences...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: December/2021
Kalilima
Faith Mussa comes from a strong musical background. Growing up in Blantyre, Malawi, he started performing with The Mussa Family...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: November/2019
Kobani
Ferhat Tunç's latest album is nicely packaged, with the songs competently translated into English. If you are unfamiliar with the...
Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: October/2016
Sirventés: Occitan Protest Songs
Manu Théron, Youssef Hbeisch & Grégory Dargent
Those familiar with the recordings by the Marseille group Lo Còr de la Plana over the past decade will recognise...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2015
MwSOUL
Tunisian-born but now Brussels-based singer Ghalia Benali's rich and experimental career spans two decades and touches not only on music,...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2017
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
