Reviews
Night Train for Lovers and Thieves
Gypsy Groovz Orchestra Goes Tuttimundi
Most new Balkan brass records try to capitalise on the genre's reputation as being fantastic dance music – each vying...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
African Homeland: Voices & Rhythms From Zimbabwe and Southern Africa
We're no doubt going to be hearing a lot of music from South Africa in the run-up to the soccer...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2010
Songs For Desert Refugees
The conflict in the southern Sahara between Malian government forces and the Touareg-led NMLA revolutionary army is reaching crisis point....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2012
Vida
Vida is Ana Tijoux’s first album in a decade. That does not mean the Chilean rapper was hiding from the...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2024
Gnawa Soul
The Gnawa, Morocco’s musical brotherhoods, were placed on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list in 2019. This is a...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2022
A Pilgrim's Tale
This year sees the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower setting sail with 102 passengers, mostly religious refugees, for a new...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2020
Ghost Gamelan
For their latest collaboration singer Susheela Raman and guitarist Sam Mills team up with Indonesian composer Gondrong Gunarto on this...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Brésil: Le Chant du Nordeste 1928-1950
With Brazil's north-east so strongly identified in recent decades with the whirl of forró, you'd be forgiven for thinking its...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2010
Music of Southern & Northern Laos
Sound recordist Laurent Jeanneau has spent years travelling among the ethnic minority cultures of Laos and Cambodia. This two-CD set...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: December/2018
