Reviews
Resilience: Songs of Uganda
A former member of Uganda's longest lasting and most celebrated group the Afrigo Band, Rachel Magoola has released her seventh...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2021
This Pale
Shujaat Husain Khan, Katayoun Goudarzi, Shaho Andalibi, Shariq Mustafa
Sufi music exists in various forms in different parts of the Islamic world with differing music and poetry in various...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2021
Don Letts Presents: Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown Vol 2
Don Letts hosts an enjoyably eclectic radio show on BBC 6Music and is something of an icon of the late-70s...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2015
Kijombo
One might start by pointing out that the musicianship on this recording, the second from this joint Dominican and New...
Reviewed by Michael Galea in issue: April/2020
Yeni Dunya
Honed on the streets of Istanbul, the message of Light in Babylon comes out loud and clear, across time and...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: April/2017
Ceilidh
Ceilidh, the third album from the self¬proclaimed enfants terribles of the English folk-dance scene, is a curious beast. Opening with...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Viaje a la Amistad: La Habana, Paris, Caracas
Gérard Naulet, Orlando Valle, Orlando Poleo & Friends
The trope of a viaje a la amistad – a ‘journey to friendship’ – is integral to Latin American music,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2018
This House Will Stand
For this Best Of set, Oysterband have compiled a disc of choice cuts from across their late-90s and post-2000s career,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2016
Apparition
Jambinai's follow-up to the magnificent Onda may be short, but it's another exhilarating and intriguing offering from the deserved winners...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2022
