Reviews
The Rough Guide to Arabic Lounge
Lounge – it's a tricky old concept. ‘Mood music that evoked exotic elsewheres’ is how the liner notes define its...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2010
Radio Babel
Watcha Clan are a ragtag collective of musicians from the Mediterranean port town of Marseille. France's third city is a...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2011
Kinshasa 1978: Originals and Reconstructions
This is a welcome reimagining of a remarkable recording that captured the early days of the Congotronics groups. Recorded in...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020
Rua da Emenda
Up to this point, António Zambujo had been gradually climbing a ladder that meant both more international recognition, establishing a...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Apr/May/2015
Ruhabi
Forming musical communities is all the rage for young jazz artists on the London scene. The emerging double-sax quartet Outhouse...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2010
Thanks for Listening
Fans of the long-running weekly radio show A Prairie Home Companion may already be familiar with some of these songs:...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: April/2018
Wild Bill Jones
A staple character in the canon of American folk balladry, Wild Bill Jones is usually depicted as a dashing ne’er-do-well...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2013
Ishumar 2: New Tuareg Guitars
The second post-Tinariwen compilation of Touareg bands from Mali, Niger and Algeria promises to point out ‘new directions’ in the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2011
Hungarian World Music: 70s-80s
For anyone interested in Hungarian music, this is a very useful overview of the last 40 years, since the beginning...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2011
Afropentatonism
Alhousseini Anivolla & Girum Mezmur
With five notes per octave, the pentatonic scale is considered the oldest scale in the world. Originating in ancient Mesopotamia...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
