Reviews
Echo
Ben Walker is hailed as one of the world's finest acoustic guitarists, for the half dozen brilliant albums he made...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2019
Undercurrent
Accompanied by a line-up different from her familiar touring trio of recent years, Sarah Jarosz offers Undercurrent, which serves as...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
The Road
I first came across Mamak Khadem when I reviewed her solo album Jostojoo in 2008. A couple of years later,...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2016
Native American Flute
Native American flute music has enjoyed a vast popularity ever since R Carlos Nakai first began recording in the 1980s...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2016
To Know Without Knowing
Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience
This is the second album that Mulatu Astatke, one of the fathers of Ethio-jazz, has recorded with ‘BJX’, the 12-piece...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Dernier Appel
The singer Tiken Jah Fakoly is next in line to Alpha Blondy on the somewhat specialised Ivory Coast reggae scene,...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2014
Calico Soul
The magic of like minds, especially musical ones, is that they often seem to meet serendipitously, and nowhere more so...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2020
Drifters & Vagabonds
With one foot in Scotland, the other in Austria and a few other limbs in Sweden and Vienna, Black Market...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Afrobeats Hot Hits: The New Sound of Urban Africa
The sounds of Afrobeats are not to be mistaken with the music of Fela Anikulapo Kuti. The crucial ‘s’ denotes...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: November/2017
Inspiration
Jah Wobble Presents: PJ Higgins
You wait and wait for a PJ Higgins album and then two come along at once. Although, while this Jah...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
