Reviews
Palaver
Ebo Taylor | Ebo Taylor Jnr with Wuta Wazutu
One of the most satisfying rediscoveries of the crate-digging phenomenon of recent years has been Ebo Taylor, the veteran Ghanaian...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2019
Partir
Swiss-Albanian singer Elina Duni's work until now has been with a jazz group, but her new offering is an entirely...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Coffee Creek
What does modern bluegrass sound like? It sounds like The Slocan Ramblers – who sound a lot like the great...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2016
Ya Nass
Although relatively unknown in Europe, Yasmine Hamdan is something of an icon among the educated urban elite of the Arab...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2013
Let Them Speak
This is an album recorded by 18 musicians, separated by 18,000km. The Umoza Music Project is a joint Malawian and...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2015
Now
The Swedish fiddler Ellika Frisell and the Senegalese kora player Solo Cissokho won a BBC Radio 3 Award for World...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Fonn
Five voices, one family, three generations, and a treasury of Gaelic song – the Campbells of Greepe, near Dunvegan on...
Reviewed by Tim Camming in issue: July/2012
Candela
Following on from his breakthrough A La Mar, Vicente García shows real pop craft in ploughing the furrows of his...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2019
Soprem Bons Ventos
Pedro Ricardo, Portuguese multi-instrumentalist, DJ and producer, explains that his debut album represents “an ode to the past, to those...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: April/2023
Born in Parallel
Double bassist and composer Daphna Sadeh is not the first bandleader to draw inspiration from the common ground between early...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
