Reviews
Cicada Ball
The Boxcar Boys aren’t all that they seem. They aren’t all boys, for one thing: two of the sextet are...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2016
Awal Mara
Having made his first instrument as a boy from a tin can and old bicycle brake cables, the blind Moroccan...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2010
Between River and Railway
Dumfries and Galloway have always been a fertile ground for powerful Scottish singers and songwriters and it is clear this...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2016
Gràs
Hailing from the windswept Outer Hebridean island of South Uist, MacInnes is one of the finest singers in the Gaelic...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2015
Hakili Kélé
The veteran Malian griot Mah Damba believed she had recorded her final album when she made 2010's À l'Ombre du...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Grandad's Favorite
Instantly likeable, this album gets off to a cracking start with a raucous rendition of the classic ‘Jawbone’. Grandad's Favorite...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Piconema: East African Hits on the Colombian Coast
The title of this delicious compilation derives from the picós, the Afro-Colombian sound systems analogous to their Jamaican counterparts and...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2023
Live at Café Oto
OKI is the tonkori-wielding bard famed for bringing the endangered music of the Ainu people of Hokkaido, one of Japan’s...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2023
Dimanche à Bamako
If that title sounds familiar, it probably is: this album shares its name with Amadou & Mariam’s 2005 masterwork –...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/February/2024
Away Beyond the Fret
East Anglian husband and wife duo Lucy and Jon Hart have coincided their third album with the birth of their...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: March/2024
