Reviews
Next Stop… Soweto Vol 2: Soul, Funk & Organ Grooves from the Townships 1969-76
All credit to compilers Duncan Brooker and Francis Gooding, for what they have done with this unusual and fascinating comp¬ilation...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2010
Bomba Pop
Amsterdam Klezmer Band are full of chutzpah — or, as the Dutch say, gotspe. Just two years shy of the...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2024
In Winter
A winter album has been on the to-do list of this brilliantly inventive art-folk ensemble for a decade and a...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2025
¡Gózalo! Bugalú Tropical Vol 4
Some four years after the first volume of Vampisoul’s admirable series was released, here comes Volume 4 to disavow us...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Travels
Hawaiian-Japanese ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro has been taking his humble instrument in new directions for some years. On this latest...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2015
Shakespeare Songs
Opening with an a capella version of the witches’ curses, spells and premonitions from the murky first scene of Macbeth...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2018
cloud horizons
Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening
‘The Darkening’ is the Northumbrian term for twilight and the music of cloud horizons is crepuscular. The lyrics of ‘Long...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2023
Ali
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
This is the second album Vieux Farka Touré has released as a tribute to his father Ali Farka Touré in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022
Walk With Me
It’s been a tough couple of years for The Skatalites. Two of the legendary ska group’s founding members passed away...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
