Reviews
Anywhere On This Road
The series we’d hoped would run forever is over. Charlie Gillett's annual double-disc survey of his favourite sounds from the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: October/2010
Prisoner
There have been many fine reggae artists to come out of Africa since Bob Marley played in Zimbabwe in 1980...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2025
A Collection
The Be Good Tayas, a female trio from Vancpouver, have bee makig their very seductive music since 1999. Theyhave released...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2013
God is Not a Terrorist
Produced by Ian Brennan, the US music enthusiast whose wanderings have brought us the Malawi Mouse Boys and other treasures,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019
Orava: Panorama of Folk Song and Music Culture
This double-CD and booklet is the first in a series of six important archival releases of traditional Slovak music. Orava...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2021
Africa Express Presents…
Africa Express is a loose cooperative of like minds (with Damon Albarn somewhere near the hub) that takes Western rock...
Reviewed by Mark Ellingham in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Canaich
As is traditional for a Scottish Highland male, fiddler Duncan Chisholm isn’t one to get too demonstrative in the material...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: October/2010
Baila Sahara Baila
Mariem Hassan & Vadiya Mint El Hanevi
This is the final album from one of the great voices of the Sahara: Mariem Hassan died in August 2015...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2016
You’ve Been a Friend to Me
Sonya Cohen Cramer was a remarkable singer born into a distinguished American folk music family; her father was John Cohen...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: August/2024
