Reviews
The Rough Guide to Paris Café
Oh dear, here we go again. Cue the Citroën DS archive shots and the old tourist board copy. More ethno-musicological...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
The World of Traditional Music
Alongside Nonesuch's Explorer series, Ocora is perhaps the most important mother lode of authentic 20th-century field recordings of world music....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2018
Tell My Sister
They were the unlikeliest of pop stars: two sisters from the ancient Laurentian moun¬tain range north¬west of Montreal, plain-spoken homebodies...
Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
London to Addis
This is a simple idea with a great pay-off: record traditional Ethiopian krar (five-stringed lyre), washint (wooden flute), masenqo (single-stringed...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2019
Ouaga Affair: Hard Won Sound Of The Upper Volta 1974-1978
Ouaga Affair collects 15 tracks from the musical boom of the 1970s Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). But to see...
Reviewed by Ollie Sanders in issue: June/2010
State of Mind
Despite a career spanning two decades and counting, Zion Train show no signs of slowing down. Emerging out of the...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
The Rough Guide to Fado
Following the success of the first Rough Guide fado compilation album, some eight years later we now have a welcome...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: June/2012
Tin Can Trust
Arising out of east Los Angeles, Los Lobos first came together to play Mexican corridos (narrative ballads sung in Spanish),...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2010
The Havana Suite
Ahmed Dickinson & Trio Mestizo
With the current vogue for sharp-edged Cuban sounds – funky timba, relentless reggaeton, heavy duty salsa dura – showing no...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
The Sound Braka
Multi-instrumentalist and composer, Temelkovski, has recently brought out his first album, a captivating suite of soulful melodies, intoxicating rhythms and...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: December/2021
