Reviews
Afro Future Funk
One of the glories of modern world music is the way in which global rhythms have become totally cosmopolitan. To...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
At Our Next Meeting
The Furrow Collective is a four-piece comprising some of the leading young lights in English and Scottish folk and traditional...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2014
The Alchemy
Very often discs that are presented as fusion are rather samey and do not so much fuse a number of...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2018
I Can Feel My Dreams
Leipzig-based saxophonist, composer and producer Damian Dalla Torre has been on the improvisation/experimental music scene for some time, working with...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: August/2024
Live at the BBC
Richard Thompson & Linda Thompson
Richard Thompson fans require deep pockets. This is not the first box-set to concentrate on the man's extensive oeuvre, and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Back to Soweto
Umsakazo Records is a UK-based label making a mark with lovingly reissued vintage township jive and mbaqanga from the likes...
Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: March/2021
Farima
Anyone seeking pure guitar energy and signs of a healthy musical revival in Bamako need look no further. Led by...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2015
Out of Mind
Formed in late 2014, after the sweetly harmonising Carrivick Sisters (guitar player Charlotte and fiddler Laura) joined forces with mandolin...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2016
Zumra
Amira Medunjanin is Bosnia's most charis– matic contemporary singer of sevdah – the lyrical but melancholy song form that has...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2010
Canty
Joanne McIver & Christophe Saunière
Canty is Joanne McIver & Christophe Saunière's seventh album. McIver sings and plays flute, whistles and Scottish smallpipes. Saunière plays...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2019
