Reviews
Afrobeats Hot Hits: The New Sound of Urban Africa
The sounds of Afrobeats are not to be mistaken with the music of Fela Anikulapo Kuti. The crucial ‘s’ denotes...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: November/2017
Inspiration
Jah Wobble Presents: PJ Higgins
You wait and wait for a PJ Higgins album and then two come along at once. Although, while this Jah...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Long Time to Be Gone
Listening to ‘Jenny Put the Kettle On’, the opening track on Nora Brown’s third full-length album, Long Time to Be...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2022
Yn Rio
Welsh-Brazilian samba might seem an unlikely musical match; even less so with the addition of the BBC National Orchestra of...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: January/February/2022
Väder
My first hearing of Väder was on Swedish Radio, the sound of a fiddle duo stopping me in my tracks...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: February/March/2025
Anthology of Moravian Folk Music Vol 3: Straznicko a Kyjovsko
The first albums here are the final two volumes of the four-part Anthology of Moravian Folk Music. Moravia has very...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Anthology 2
How to collect the music of Fela Kuti has long challenged record buyers. His original vinyl albums tended to contain...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Cumbia Sabrosa Vol 2: Sonidero Bangers from the Discos Tropical Vaults
One of two tremendous compilations focussed on small but esteemed labels. Cumbia Sabrosa Vol 2 consists of three 7” singles....
Reviewed by in issue: June/2024
Diaspora in Buenos Aires
This is an intimate document of a Jewish family in Argentina remembering their roots in Eastern Europe. Pianist Andrés Linetzky...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2012
Stradivarius in Rio
Viktoria Mullova’s 2012 autobiography From Russia to Love describes how at the age of 24 she fled Soviet Russia in...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2014
