Reviews
Music from Saharan WhatsApp
Sahel Sounds’ groundbreaking 2011 compilation Music from Saharan Cellphones opened the world’s ears to the massive network of democratic digital...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: August/September/2022
Live Wires
Having spent too long wandering in debilitating heat to track down the Tambura Museum in Slavonski Brod (in eastern Croatia),...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2016
Thailand: Music and Songs from the Golden Triangle
Unreconstructed field recordings of folk songs and instrumental pieces may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but this collection provides...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
New Found Land
FatDog were born one night in the summer of 2011 on the Swedish Koster Islands, where jazz trio Fattigfolket and...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Mes Racines
The son of Slah Mosbah, a celebrated singer among Tunisia's marginalised black community from the southern desert lands on the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2018
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
Soundman Shots: The Caribou and Downbeat 78s Story
The title of this set refers to Jamaican so und – system operators, while Caribouand Downbeat were two pioneering record...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Crying Bamboos: Ceremonial Flute Music from New Guinea Madang
Recorded in 1979 by UK-based anthropologist Ragnar Johnson, these field recordings complement Johnson's previous collection Sacred Flute Music from New...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
À Flor da Pele
It was inevitable that fado, like any other musical genre, would find a new audience (even in its home country)...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2010
Hearth
Multiinstrumentalist Mairearad Green’s latest album is inspired by the women and landscapes of Coigach, a peninsula in Wester Ross in...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2020
