Reviews
Weapon of Choice
Airileke Ingram is a Melbourne-based percussionist/producer who's been omnipresent in the Australian world music scene since the mid-90s. Raised in...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Apr/May/2013
1970s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
A pair of fascinating albums mining a fruitful seam of musical esoterica – the Algerian 45rpm vinyl releases of the...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
M'berra
In 2018 the Italian producer Khalab – aka Raffaele Costantino – released the wildly acclaimed Black Noise 2084, an album...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2021
He is #1
The Malawi Mouse Boys take their name from how they make their living when not playing music – selling mice...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2012
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
The recordings of Lead Belly, made between his discovery in prison in 1933 by the folklorists John and Alan Lomax...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2015
Ar Puro
The music of Guinea-Bissau – a tiny wedge of mangroves and jungle hidden between the borders of Senegal and Guinea...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2010
A Single Tree Does Not a Forest Make
Until ten years ago a new recording of Afro-Cuban Santería songs inevitably came from the US, as precious few such...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2012
Traveler
Even if you have no idea who Jerry Douglas is, chances are you’ve heard him play. A regular member of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2012
CuCuLand
A suitably theatrical spoken word overture – clinking glasses, a call for silencio, the tap of heels and the flare...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2010
