Reviews
Tantabara
Recorded with minimal equipment in a makeshift studio in their hometown of Niamey, the third international release from Niger's Tal...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2018
Cuba: Music and Revolution – Culture Clash in Havana Cuba, Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85 Vol 1
This compilation, curated by Gilles Peterson and Soul Jazz's Stuart Baker, collects together some of the most exploratory items from...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2021
Native Music 15: Traditional, Folk & World Music from Latvia
Throughout their history the peoples of the Baltic have, sometimes at great cost, maintained their national and cultural identities, in...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2021
Mento, Not Calypso! The Original Sound of Jamaica
Mento, Not Calypso! treats us to more than 50 mento favourites, most from the pre-reggae style’s heyday, from the late...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: October/2013
Live: The Farewell Tour
Bellowhead made some great studio albums but their concerts are extraordinary. There was the horn section, kicking like a chorus...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2016
Nozhet El Nofous
As a key member of Egypt’s rich independent music scene, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and composer Nancy Mounir is well-attuned to her...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: October/2022
Chaos Theories
Hell hath no fury like a brassy sextet from Ottawa when riled. This, their ninth album since getting together in...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2019
Pressure to Pleasure
Recorded live in studios in Lagos and London by a sprawling Afrobeat band led by bassist and vocalist Femi Sofela,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2018
The Kankobela of the Batonga Vol 1
Once fishermen and farmers on the rich alluvial banks of the Zambezi, the Batonga were driven at gun¬point from their...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: March/2010
