Reviews
Healing Voices
The soulfully-voiced Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist Esinam Dogbatse, who performs under the name ESINAM, met the South African singer and guitarist Sibusile...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2025
Useza
Among the Shona communities of northeastern Zimbabwe, the matepe, a type of mbira, is used to evoke trance states to...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: July/2025
Ntjam Rosie
This is the ninth album by the Cameroonian-born singer Ntjam Rosie, although it’s the first to find its way onto...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2026
Decemberwell
An ambitious challenge was the impetus for Mike Vass’ new album. He aimed to compose and record it in just...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2013
Šatrika
Čači Vorba is the name of the group, but it's vocalist and fiddler Maria Natanson who is the star of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2016
1001
The pace is frenetic from the off, but there's something more in the mix than just the usual racing rhythm...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: May/2016
Anclao en Paris
Juan ‘Tata’ Cedrón has been making folk and tango music with one quartet or another since 1964 and has released...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2013
Herself and Myself
Thomas McCarthy is an Irish Traveller who, when he was a child, lived on a site beneath the Westway, the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Vinyl Box Set #4
While I wish I was reporting to you on the quality packaging and superb sound this vinyl box-set contains, being...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2018
Water of Tyne
Magnetic North East is a new organisation dedicated to promoting the music, culture, art and heritage – the identity, then...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
