Reviews
Nieves de Enero
Dubbed ‘Godfather of the Corrido’, Chalino Sánchez was shot dead in 1992, aged only 31, after a concert in which...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: November/2024
Toña
Kadialy Kouyate is a superb kora player from Kolda in south Senegal. Now based in the UK, he's involved in...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: September/2025
Oberkas Travel
Oberkas Travel are as close to a supergroup as one can get. A quartet of seasoned members of Warsaw’s alternative...
Reviewed by Michał Wieczorek in issue: February/March/2026
Haiti Direct – Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds 1960-1978
What a truly wonderful collection of music there is on Strut's latest outing into the musical unknown! While Cuban and...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Apr/May/2014
800% Ndagga
Mark Ernestus presents Jeri-Jeri
These two releases have come out with little fanfare, which belies what is a unique musical pairing. Berlin’s Mark Ernestus...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
My Earth Songs
Lonnie Park and the Earth Band
Nobody could question the worthiness of this project – the proceeds from which benefit UNICEF’s COVID-19 relief fund for children...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2020
Waterduction
One of Poland's outstanding musical exports, Warsaw Village Band follow their return-to-roots set, Mazovian Roots Re:action, with something of a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2021
The Prophet
In the 80 years since his death, Khalil Gibran’s slender book The Prophet has become one of most widely read...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2010
Tribute to Irakere
Paying tribute to your former band might sound like a vainglorious kind of nostalgia, if it weren’t for the fact...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2016
