Reviews
God is Not a Terrorist
Produced by Ian Brennan, the US music enthusiast whose wanderings have brought us the Malawi Mouse Boys and other treasures,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019
This Land is Your Land
With a generous 50 tracks, this release is as good a retrospective as it is possible to squeeze onto two...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2011
One Race (Tribute to Hilaire Penda)
Congolese guitarist Kiala Nzavotunga began his career playing in Le Grand Kalle’s Africa Jazz band, but he became tired of...
Reviewed by Łukasz Komła in issue: February/March/2026
God is a Drummer
‘Without the drummer, nothing will move. And without movement, the world will stop,’ says Trilok Gurtu, explaining the title of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020
The One and The Many
Great things are expected of Muntu Valdo, the Cameroonian musician who turned up in London from Paris three years ago...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2011
Since Time is Gravity
The American composer and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams has long described his experimental Natural Information Society ensemble as an exercise in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2023
All Life is Here
Harp and a Monkey, as the abrupt band name suggests, are a plain-speaking Lancastrian folk group. Frontman Martin Purdy tells...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2014
Alafia
You wait 15 years for a new Sidi Touré album and then, like a fleet of bush taxis, three come...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
All of This Is Chance
Fresh from signing off Peaky Blinders with a cover of Bob Dylan's ‘All the Tired Horses’, O’Neill returns to her...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2023
Pass the Knowledge
While Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert takes credit for coining the word reggae, and Bob Marley is widely considered reggae’s only true...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
