Reviews
Alafia
You wait 15 years for a new Sidi Touré album and then, like a fleet of bush taxis, three come...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Songs From Walking with Spirits
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
The re-release of this 2007 album showcases an extraordinary collaboration that brought together Aboriginal songmen with other Australian musicians. It...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2023
Early Congo Music 1946-1962: First Rumba, to the Real Rumba
Early Congo Music 1946-1962 has been compiled and annotated by Japanese collector Yoshiki Fukasawa. His unusual sub-title comes from the...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2019
Pass the Knowledge
While Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert takes credit for coining the word reggae, and Bob Marley is widely considered reggae’s only true...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
En Mi Piel
Flamenco artists continue to coin new genres. The Mallorca-born African gitana Concha Buika takes flamenco’s pained message and impassioned spirit...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012
Afro Futuristic Dreams
Ever since the Strut label resurrected their career, Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids have produced some of the most compelling...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2023
El Rebusque
Mama Julia y los Sonidos Ambulantes
Since La Mojarra Eléctrica disappeared on indefinite hiatus, the world has been calling out for a new group to combine...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2015
The Original Sound of Mali
The dance band craze of the 1970s saw groups from all over West Africa putting their own spin on Latin...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2017
Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay
It's titled Nothing More because there is nothing more by Fotheringay out there than the 52 tracks on this three-CD...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2015
Protection: Himalayan Buddhist Mantras
Talking to an anthropologist friend, I asked why the West remains so fascinated with Tibet. I learned about Madame Helena...
Reviewed by Thomas Christie Williams in issue: June/2017
