Reviews
Eritrea's Got Soul
Eritrea has become Africa's forgotten country – certainly when it comes to music. Bordered on one side by the Red...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
The Way Home
Having followed an early grounding in his native Highland traditions with a full classical training, Donald Grant is both a...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Young, Gifted and Yellow
This new anthology of albino dancehall star Yellowman flaunts his laugh-out-loud sexual swagger over two CDs. His massive hit ‘Zungguzungguguzungguzeng’...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
The Silver Messengers
When one hears of Cape Verdean roots music mingled with jazz it is hard not to shudder with trepidation. The...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2020
The Rough Guide to Greek Café
This disc is impressive, covering a great deal of ground from 1960s laïká to later more eclectic and Anatolian-inspired tracks,...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Gilles Peterson Presents: Havana Cultura Anthology
Gilles Peterson first started his Havana Cultura project back in 2008. Since then, the project has garnered several albums worth...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2017
Grey Falcon
Svetlana Spajic has been researching and performing the village music of Serbs in Serbia itself and further afield for many...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Apr/May/2013
Turlku 4: New Music from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands
An outback project developed in Australia’s Western Desert, (a sparsely populated region with hundreds of kilometres between remote Aboriginal communities),...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2011
Armenian Spirit
One has to admire Jordi Savall, now bravely continuing the campaign he and his wife, the singer Montserrat Figueras, had...
Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: March/2013
La Guinéenne
Youssou N’Dour might be still defined by ‘Seven Seconds’, his 1994 smash hit with Neneh Cherry, had he not gone...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2012
