Reviews
Lo Bueno, Lo Malo, Lo Feo y los Alaracosos
Ten years after their debut, Peru’s Los Chapillacs are back, and their sound has hardly changed. Which is a great...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2022
Afrik TounMé
These are difficult days in Mali, with political upheaval adding to the problems brought by COVID-19, but great music is...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: November/2020
Amankor/The Exile
This exiled Touareg ensemble from Mali's Timbuktu region have been active for nearly three decades, led by singer Fadimata Walet...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2019
Amansara
Chancha Via Circuito is one of a group of producers that emerged from Buenos Aires in the mid-2000s as part...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Making Waves
Luke Daniels’ Revolve and Rotate EP featured the sounds of the extraordinary Polyphon, a sort of vaudevillian organic-analogue synth –...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2017
BRSB
Bacao pan out of Hamburg, lending a Caribbean touch to rap hits, although some of these covers are somewhat mainstream...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: May/2024
Indumiso YabeNguni
Ntuthuko Ndebele – aka Mthuthu – began setting his lyrics to house music in collaboration with various South African DJs...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2025
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014
This year’s Radio 2 Folk Awards night at the Royal Albert Hall featured some priceless moments: a duet between Martin...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2014
C’est La Vie
Many listeners admired the king of rai’s last couple of albums, notably Liberté, which heard his characterful voice unchained from...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: June/2013
Mike Marshall & The Turtle Island Quartet
Mike Marshall & The Turtle Island Quartet
With this latest entry in his Adventure Music catalogue, mandolin maestro Mike Marshall and the renowned Turtle Island Quartet have...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2014
