Reviews
Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66
This double-CD set captures the ‘colonial’-influenced dance music of Anglophone West Africa, from shortly before and after Ghanaian and Nigerian...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2015
Tum Tum Tum
There seems to be a deluge of bilingual English and Portuguese albums from London-based Brazilians in this issue, though you...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: July/2026
Oak Ash Thorn
The legend and music of Peter Bellamy looms large over the new generation of British folk stars. Many of them...
Reviewed by Tim Camming in issue: June/2011
Gracious Wings
Since her eponymous debut, released in 2006, through the stellar likes of Hyperboreans, Saturnine and Lullabies, Jackie Oates has proved...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2022
Hanoi Masters: War is a Wound, Peace is a Scar
The intrepid producer and field recordist Ian Brennan has worked with both Tinariwen and Malawi Mouse Boys. He recently recorded...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: July/2015
Africa Soyo
London-based Gnawa master Simo Lagnawi returns with his latest album, Africa Soyo, a clean, crisp recording – something that's very...
Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: April/2020
Soul & Science
Nickodemus is a New York DJ whose global success has come through mixing house, hip-hop and disco with different sounds...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2023
Bali 1928 I: Gamelan Gong Kebyar
Claude Debussy–one of the first Western composers to hear and be influenced by gamelan — titled one of his piano...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
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Pioneer Works Swing (Live)
Hailu Mergia | Hailu Mergia & The Walias
Not only did the Éthiopiques series make available a treasure of little known music from the golden age of Ethiopian...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2023
The Happiest Man in the World
Eric Bibb & North Country Far & Danny Thompson
Eric Bibb refutes the stereotype of the bluesman as bad-ass drunkard who would sell his soul so to play music...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2016
