Reviews
Meet Me at Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras in Louisiana is one of the world’s great public celebrations. The Cajuns have their own country Mardi Gras...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2012
Benin – Yoruba Music
This is a double CD of field recordings made in 1958, 1969 and between 1996 and 1999, lavishly pre¬sented like...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012
Akal
Tarwa N-Tiniri were born in Ouarzazate, Morocco’s ‘door of the desert’ and Akal marks their second album. Its title translates...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: July/2024
N’MOTS
It’s now more than 20 years since Damien Elisa – a Mauritian pianist, composer, vocalist, and arranger – released his...
Reviewed by Łukasz Komła in issue: May/2026
Havana Club Rumba Sessions
Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band
Beginning with the evocative, unaccompanied beat of the wooden clavé, the base of all rumba – an elemental Cuban genre...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2016
Rajatila/Borderline
The Finnish a capella quartet Tuuletar made quite an impression with their first album Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal in 2016...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2019
Del Canto Gitano: Music of Ancient Andalusia
The Moorish-occupied Iberian Peninsula, usually referred to as Al-Andalus, is an endless source of fascination. It was a period of...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2021
Journey Through Latin America
Much like tributes and electronica cover albums, classical celebrations of other genres are liable to prompt highly musical yawns or...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2013
The Ties That Bind
It's perhaps not too fanciful to now see Mawkin filling that Bellowhead-shaped hole looming in the folk-festival calendar – that's...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Mabanzo
This bubbly singer jokes that she grew up ‘pretty much everywhere,’ and there are certainly a lot of influences present...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2022
