Reviews
Dimbambe: Identité
Affable yet determined, velvet-smooth yet troubled. Such colourful, perhaps contradictory epithets could describe the Cameroonian Mario Combo and his fourth...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Skycatcher
Hasidic Jewish crossovers aside, New York’s reggae scene has become trademarked by large, brass heavy dub groups who use guest...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Impromptu
Angelo Debarre, born in St-Denis, France, starte d playing guitar at the age of eight. A member of the Manouche...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
White Night
The ‘white night’ of this album's title comes from an anonymous Japanese poem about a cuckoo that sings all the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Turas 1980
Banish all thoughts of the New Age-accented, ambient-washed sound that made Clannad a crossover phenomenon following the attention-grabbing success of...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2018
Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan
Defining exactly what is or is not ‘avant-garde’ music is an impossible task, with not even close to a consensus...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: May/2021
Song til Nordavinden
Jo Asgeir Lie has, for many years, played a prominent role in the Norwegian folk scene. As a highly regarded...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2016
Trompeteros
Oh, to have lived in Peru in the 70s. Well, perhaps not... what with military dictators, the Ancash quake and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2020
Le Dernier Empereur Bantou
Pierre Kwenders’ first full-length project is an electro-fused delight. Kwenders currently resides in Montreal but has Congolese heritage and his...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2016
Amazones Power
Les Amazones d'Afrique are the pan-African female supergroup that wowed the crowds at WOMAD in 2016, commanding attention with the...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2020
