Reviews
Musica Fina
A six-piece UK- based fusion band, Fernando’s Kitchen grew out of a meeting on London’s South Bank between two buskers:...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2014
Chosen Daughter
When I reviewed O'Connor's debut release, This Willowed Light, back in #102, I enthused about how the turn of phrase...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2019
Moytou
UK-based Senegalese dancer-turned-singer Batch Gueye had a very promising first album, Ndiarigne, back in 2014, and has been a key...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2021
The Original Sound of Mali
The dance band craze of the 1970s saw groups from all over West Africa putting their own spin on Latin...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2017
Do Primeiro Fado Ao Último Tango
‘From the First Fado to the Last Tango’ is a Best Of set celebrating Mísia’s 25 years as a recording...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: May/2017
Music of the Santal Tribe: Field Recordings by Deben Bhattacharya
This album not only has some wonderful music but is also a valuable ethnographic and historical record of the culture...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2014
Live at the Tabernacle
It's been ten years since the exquisite debut album by the British-born Palestinian singer and we really shouldn’t have had...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2016
An Introduction to Martin Carthy
One of the jewels in Topic's vast catalogue has to be the work of Martin Carthy, one of the colossi...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2018
