Reviews
Yoyi
Launching the Brighton-based label’s new Cuban Classic Series comes this curio from 1977, originally released on the Areito subsidiary of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/February/2024
Free West Papua: Rize of the Morning Star Vol 2
Like its 2013 predecessor, this compilation features artists from the Pacific and other countries, banding together in musical solidarity with...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2016
Mzansi Beat Code
South Africa's Spoek Mathambo is a busy man. The celebrated songwriter and rapper also fronts Pan-African ensemble Batuk and the...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: June/2017
Europa
This is a re-release of the Bavarian brass-band-cum-techno outfit's second album, although it's not entirely clear why an album that...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2015
500 Years of Night
Hailing from the Chiapas region of Mexico but based in Toronto, Canada, Quique Escamilla might represent a modern version of...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: March/2015
ARC
Although this is only McGoldrick's fifth solo album in 22 years and his first since 2010, the genial Manchester-based flute,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2018
Kali City
Karim Baggili is a Belgian-born composer, guitarist and oud (Arab lute) player of Jordanian/Yugoslavian heritage, which means that he has...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2014
Ongod
Mongolian khöömei (overtone) singer Ganzorig Nergui and morin huur (horse head fiddle) player Ganbold Muukhaï are the two remaining members...
Reviewed by Michel Ormiston in issue: Apr/May/2014
Tangos
Rubén Blades is good at lots of things: singing, acting, writing salsa hits, being Panama's tourism minister, campaigning (against Sun...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
UNITE: A Gathering of Strangers
Hamid Man Tu and Tim Whelan of Transglobal Underground have fashioned an ambitious pan-European project around the banner of UNITE...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2010
