Reviews
Bones of Contention
From the streets of Glasgow, this trio – guitarist and singer John Langan, Alastair Caplin on fiddle, and double bassist...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Tovafelé: Music from Beyond the Carpathian Mountains
Tuz Lángja are a young Hungarian band, drawing on the traditions of the Csángó people, who live in an enclave...
Reviewed by Balázs Weyer in issue: July/2011
Zone 6, Agege
Soaring highlife horns and harmonies jostle with hip-hop vocals and reggae rhythms to create a thoroughly engaging and very modern...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: April/2022
Tamburocket Hungarian Fireworks
According to one story, the last music heard by the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the night before going to his death,...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Mali All Stars: Bogolan Music
You might have thought there were already enough compilations of Malian music in the world. But this well presented box-set...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2014
Iorram
Iorram (Boat Song) begins with electro-washes of ambient sound, swooping back and forth, as if in the process of self...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2021
Paz en la Tierra
Meridian Brothers & Conjunto Media Luna
Musically, this is the most conventional album of Meridian Brothers main-man Eblis Álvarez's career. Colombia's traditional music has always been...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: November/2021
Halo
This is the Argentinian alchemist Juana Molina's seventh album and it demonstrates a masterful refinement of her sample-based, patchwork approach...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: July/2017
The Arch
This collaboration, only released recently, may have been the last work of the respected French musician, producer and remix specialist...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Apr/May/2013
