Reviews
Cast Your Fate To The Wind: The Complete Decca UK Recordings
Marianne Faithfull was a complex lady. She was not just the languid pop star who recorded ‘As Tears Go By’...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2025
Une Voix M’Apelle: The Modern Lebanese Sound Of The Voix De L’orient Label 1967–1984
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Known as the ‘Switzerland of the Middle East’ during the 50s and 60s, Lebanon’s prosperous post-war economy saw its capital...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: October/2025
Songs from Mexico
It would be easy to write off Yuly Tovar as merely the 2012 winner of Mexican nationwide talent show, Graba...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2017
Love Songs and Dance Music from Loristan
Heshmatollah Rajabzadeh, Nezam Rajabzadeh, The Aftab Group
Recordings of Iranian regional music released outside Iran have become rather sparse in recent years, so this new album by...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: October/2010
A Chant About the Beauty of the Moon at Night: Hawaiian Steel Guitar Masters 1913-1921
With Spanish guitars having been well established in the Hawaiian islands since the mid-1800s, local 16-year-old guitarist Joseph Kekuku is...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2022
Funk Globo: The Sound of Neo Baile
As the world’s eye focuses on Brazil and its impending sporting exploits, the Brighton-based label Mr Bongo release a new...
Reviewed by Edward Craggs in issue: October/2013
Les Esprits Écoutent: The Spirits are Listening
There are stunning sounds on this compilation of music by Siberian indigenous peoples, drawn from Buda's Siberia CD series, which...
Reviewed by Carole Pegg in issue: July/2014
Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83
A dreadlocked mane, popularised eternally by Bob Marley, is an iconic image for Jamaican music. But would Rastafari have become...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: November/2015
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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
Asar
Pakistani singer Muslim Shaggan comes from an impressive lineage of vocal musicians in two ways. Firstly, his grandfather and teacher...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2025
