Reviews
Cracks in the Room
Eased into existence via a Kickstarter campaign and produced by Chris Wood – his first production job on music other...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2017
Miss Colombia
Lido Pimienta calls her third album ‘a cynical love letter’ to her home country and the Colombian people. Based in...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2020
Banjaxed
Banjaxed finds Ciarán Ryan stepping confidently out from the ranks of Edinburgh-based world-folk fusionistas Dallahan to deliver a masterclass in...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2020
Piazzolla 2021
French prodigy Louise Jallu took an interest in tango when she was five and has been playing virtuoso bandoneón since...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2021
Akofa Akoussah
Togolese singer Akofa Akoussah died in 2007 aged just 57 and this – originally recorded and released by the French...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: March/2019
Taoba
A new group from the Solomon Islands, Kaumaakonga hail from the small southern isles of Mungava and Mungiki (jointly referred...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2019
The Exorcism of a Spinster
This is the confident debut solo album by this Zimbabwean mbira (thumb piano) player and singer, who may be familiar...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: November/2019
Gagok Lyrical Songs
Kim Wol-ha died 20 years ago. She was one of the last musicians who had trained in the most prestigious...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: Apr/May/2015
Doğu Ekspresi
The border town of Kars in the far north-east of Turkey holds a special allure in the Turkish imagination. The...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2025
En Español
In the US, the Mavericks are packaged to the mainstream as a country band. They can play anything, from rockabilly...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2020
