Reviews
Air Chall :Lost
A founder member of Dóchas, Rachel Walker is superbly backed up here by a core band comprising Jenna Reid, Kathleen...
Reviewed by Debbie Koritsas in issue: July/2010
Séga Ravanne
This is the latest re-release from Ocora's extensive catalogue of field recordings from around the world, stretching back 60 years....
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2017
Curiche
In the past ten years Afrobeat has spread across Latin America, new disciples discovering the genre through the internet and...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2020
Face to Face
Vusi Mahlasela, Norman Zulu & Jive Connection
The velvet-voiced Sotho folk singer Vusi Mahlasela met the Swedish jazz/soul collective Jive Connection in the early 1990s in an...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2023
Sonic Migration
The Subsonic Trio brings together musicians from Brazil, Finland and Australia – no longer such a surprise in our globalised...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2017
Botyiaki Ntembe
This two-CD package reissues two albums that book-ended the latter part of the veteran Congolese troubadour’s musical career. Antoine Wendo...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Kora Flamenca
This album, by Montréal-based Senegalese kora player Zal Sissokho, is the fruit of the Centre des Musiciens du Monde, a...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: May/2021
Marcha!
This is the third album from the male voice choir from the quartier of La Plaine in Marseille, who go...
Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
La Onda Vampi
Vampisoul really knows how to mash it up. The Spanish label, celebrating a decade this year, has to be one...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2012
