Reviews
Terre Rouge
At the opening weekend of this summer's Mendocino Music Festival in California, two bands from eastern Canada made an interesting...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: November/2015
Everybody Wants to Be Like Mary
Scottish folk music is no stranger to electronica – going back to the original ‘techno piper’, the late Martyn Bennett...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: February/March/2025
Roi De L’Agbadja Moderne 1974–1983
Best known as the lead singer of salsa legends Africando between 1996 and his death in 2004, Gnonnas Pedro was...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2025
Adventures in the Now
This is the fourth instalment of genre crossing ethno-jazz fusion from Finnish multi-instrumentalist Ilkka Arola and his band Sound Tagine....
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: June/2025
Don’t Call Me Baby
Born to Haitian parents in New York and now a proud resident of the Big Easy, McCalla brings a bewildering...
Reviewed by Paul Slade in issue: February/March/2026
The Harry Smith B-Sides
Harry Smith’s legendary six-LP series, Anthology of American Folk Music, surely stands as the most influential collection of early 20th...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2020
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Friends: The Black Ark Years
When Trojan Records became part of the giant Universal Music, reggae collectors might well have feared that the previous stream...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Lalehzar
Javid Afsari Rad was the virtuoso santur player of the renowned group Zarbang and, while this is essentially a solo...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
