Reviews
Pressure to Pleasure
Recorded live in studios in Lagos and London by a sprawling Afrobeat band led by bassist and vocalist Femi Sofela,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2018
Too Long in This Condition
Supposedly Alasdair Roberts is a human male born in the 1970s, raised in central Scotland and a resident of Glasgow...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2010
O Mistério
It hasn’t been easy since Teresa Salgueiro left Portugal’s Madredeus. While the band are still looking for a fitting substitute...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2012
Magma
Taking inspiration from Mulatu Astatke and Fela Kuti, as well as traditional Western and Oriental music, this fourth album from...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: March/2022
Face to Face
Film-composer and pianist Heffes, the man responsible for soundtracks such as The Last King of Scotland and Touching the Void,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2013
Los Duendes de la Marimba
This album was recorded in the house of the Torres family (keepers of the Torres dynasty, masters of Colombia’s Pacific...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2020
Forty Martyrs: Armenian Chants From Aleppo
Last year Jason Hamacher, a punk drummer from Washington DC, released NAWA: Ancient Sufi Invocations & Forgotten Songs from Aleppo,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Wonderland
The first thing that hits you is the voice. Bright, clear, high-pitched, as sharply faceted as polished amethyst, tinged with...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2022
Addis to Omega
Those familiar with the heavily Ethiopian-influenced band heard on the last three Dub Colossus albums will hardly recognise this new...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
