Reviews
Moyuba Baba, Moyuba Yeye
Now 12 years old, the London Lucumi Choir continues to do extraordinary community-centred arts work and celebrates the rich, syncretistic...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2018
Shakkar
2011 Songlines Newcomer Artist Award-winner Raghu Dixit has been busy of late composing and performing as a playback singer for...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: September/2024
12 Inches of Dub
During the late 1970s, the Jamaican music scene was completely reconfigured when aspiring producer Henry ‘Junjo’ Lawes began working with...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: March/2020
Kigali Y’Izahabu
The most exciting thing about Kigali Y'Izahabu is that it is potentially going to reach an audience who might not...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
The Rough Guide to English Folk
This is, in a sense, not one but two Rough Guides. The first is a selection of 17 tracks compiled...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2011
The Hind Wheels of Bad Luck
In an era in which female folk voices are either breathy and virginal or histrionic and attention-seeking, Cath Tyler’s voice...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Apr/May/2010
Congo Funk! Sound Madness from the Shores of the Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa/Brazzaville 1969-1982)
A simplified history of music during the period dubbed L’Authenticité in the Congo shows a period of heavily state-funded and...
Reviewed by Nik Hann in issue: June/2024
Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition
In 1965, Who's That Knocking? by Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard demolished forever a de facto gender barrier within the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2022
The Rough Guide to South African Jazz
The title might suggest another nostalgic ‘golden era’ compilation of township jive, kwela and marabi, built around the old favourites...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2016
The Rough Guide to Blues Divas
The stereotypical image of the early blues pioneers as black itinerant males playing bottleneck guitar on the plantations of the...
Reviewed by Nigel Luilliamson in issue: April/2020
