Reviews
Songs for the Mist Forest
Morgan Szymanski & Tommy Perman
The music created by childhood friends Morgan Szymanski and Tommy Perman serves as a reflection of their natural surroundings. While...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: August/2025
Peru: Music of the Awajún and Wampis Amazonia, Cenepa Valley
Assessing an album of 36 brief pieces of music from small Amazonian settlements in Peru is a challenging task. The...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: June/2010
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
Apikorsim/Heretics
From New York, The Klezmatics have been shaking up the klezmer and Yiddish music scene for 30 years now. So...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2016
No More the Green Hills
‘She Moves Through the Fair’, ‘As I Roved Out’, ‘Johnny, My Man’… Janice Burns and Jon Doran have chosen some...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2022
The Rough Guide to Morocco
There are two approaches to compiling these kind of one-hour musical guides. You can opt for the historical overview. Or...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2012
The Ansonia Years 1969-71
Arguably the star of Vampisoul's collection Saoco!, percussionist Rafael Cortijo is now heard here on his own compilation. The album...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2016
The Bridge that Links Time
Since their previous record, Chants Polyphoniques d’Albanie, an efficient survey of the remarkably varied unaccompanied songs of the Albanian south,...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Blodeugerdd – Song of the Flowers
Remember Mary Hopkin? ‘Those Were the Days’ sold millions in the late 60s, but then she walked away from pop...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2010
