Reviews
Levanta Poeira
Levanta Poeira is a puzzling musical object. Compiler DJ Tahira is a well-known vinyl digger based in São Paulo and...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2018
Luangwa to Livingstone: Music from Zambia – Chikunda, Nsenga, Soli, Cewa, Tonga, Ila, Leya
This is a lavish four-CD set of fi eld recordings made by Michael Baird between 1996 and 2016. Baird has...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020
Shall We Hope
Just when you think the cultural lodestone of America's Civil War has given up every drop of blood it could...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2021
Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955-69)
Encouraged by an Indonesian government keen to engender ideas of national identity in the newly independent country, a raft of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: January/February/2023
Malk
Given the pheno¬menal international success of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunu-pingu's 2008 solo album, the blind Aboriginal singer's earlier work has sometimes...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Path of Seven Colors
Listening to this groundbreaking album on the day the news reveals that Haiti’s president has been assassinated by a group...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2021
Live in Bamako
There's a certain emotional urgency that can only be delivered by a live album. Live in Bamako, Oumar Konaté's fourth...
Reviewed by Leander Hobbs in issue: June/2018
Mud Doll
Single-handedly produced, recorded, arranged, mixed and mastered by British talent Niraj Chag, this is ambitiously lofty (if occasionally bombastic) cinematic...
Reviewed by Jon Mitchell in issue: November/2015
Crossharbour
The album cover shows a young five-piece band posed on the ‘blade of light’ Millennium Bridge linking the Tate Modern...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2014
The Song of the Banjo
After a six-year hiatus, the banjo-picker, composer, Harvard graduate, former investment banker and record-label founder Alison Brown has released The...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2016
