Reviews
Grandad's Favorite
Instantly likeable, this album gets off to a cracking start with a raucous rendition of the classic ‘Jawbone’. Grandad's Favorite...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Das Nuvens
Fabiano Do Nascimento | Fabiano do Nascimento
Fabiano do Nascimento was born and raised in Rio and São Paulo. For the last decade or so he's been...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: August/September/2023
Black Attack
40 years since Mutabaruka’s first studio album, and 14 years since his last, this new release from the Jamaican dub...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: January/February/2024
La Vie est Belle
It’s been 20 years since Amadou & Mariam rocketed into the African superstar league with Dimanche à Bamako, the album...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2024
Jolifanto
For all its depth of tradition, flamenco has always been moved by innovation. In 1979 Camarón de le Isla’s La...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2024
Bhangra Rangeela
Red Baraat, the Brooklyn-based South Asian brass band with a list of great albums over the years, hardly need any...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2025
Zagate
Souad Massi is moving on, yet again. Originally famed for her exquisite, folk-country influenced sad ballads in Arabic and French,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2026
Muraqaba
Fanna-fi-Allah, meaning ‘To Annihilate the Self,’ is the name of a Canadian-American group specialising in qawwali, the devotional music of...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: December/2018
A Lindisfarne Gospel
In the early eighth century on Holy Island in Northumberland, a man named Eadfrith, working alone, created a glorious masterpiece,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2014
