Reviews
Les Bateaux
Malian guitarist and singer Mamadou Kelly is a graduate of the bands of both Ali Farka Touré and Afel Bocoum,...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020
Kassa
We first heard Mali’s Adama Yalomba on the 2003 Festival au Desert compilation. Then the trail went cold again. Kassa...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2010
The Rough Guide to Ethiopian Jazz
Rough Guides turns its attention to the wonderful world of Ethio-jazz. The trap of focusing only on Buda Musique's landmark...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2016
Windrush
As a Pennsylvaniaborn singer-songwriter and mandolinist married to a Frenchwoman and living in Cambridgeshire during the Brexit tussles, it’s perhaps...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2020
Un Canadien Errant
This is a three-way collaboration between Québécois fiddle and piano playing singer Sophie Lavoie, and uilleann piper and banjo player...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2017
Taling Dimalu: Beautiful Tales
Kora player Kadialy Kouyaté has woven a stellar reputation since arriving in London from Casamance, southern Senegal in 2003. Born...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2019
7 Billion
It's good, for her health's sake, that New York-based ghazal singer Kiran Ahluwalia isn’t one of those artists, like Led...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2018
Raivopyörä
Maija Kauhanen has emerged in recent years as a strong new presence on the Finnish folk scene, first as a...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2017
On the Romance of Being
Based in the Amandawe township in KwaZulu-Natal, Desire Marea has held a place at the centre of South Africa's queer...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2023
