Reviews
Night Song
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook
Night Song was the second time the Pakistani devotional qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan had worked with Canadian producer...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2019
The Wayward Tour Live
Following on from Wayward Daughter Eliza Carthy's double-CD Best Of set, The Wayward Tour Live is a CD and DVD...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2015
La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 1
Awesome Tapes from Africa began its life as a record label with a reissue of Malian Wassoulou singer Nahawa Doumbia's...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Family
Eneida Marta is perhaps the best known female singer from Guinea-Bissau, a diva whose golden, wide-ranging voice – an instrument...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2023
Rivers: From the Congo to the Mississippi
A veteran soukous guitarist from the DRC, Siama Matuzungidi played on local hits by the likes of Kanda Bongo Man,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
Big Blue Desert
It is a measure of Mehdi Haddab's intensity and generosity that the oud player conjures an imaginary galaxy in the...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
The Space Between
Kicking off with a fiery, drum-pounding reel courtesy of Jerry Holland (‘Brenda Stubbert’s Reel’) and closing with the rather spooky...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2022
Incidents & Accidents
The best tracks on British singer and banjo player Dan Walsh's previous album, The Same but Different, were its solo...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2015
Folk Songs
There are few more reliable guarantees of quality in any form of contemporary music than if the name Kronos appears...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2017
Mazovian Roots Re:action
Warsaw Village Band, now well entrenched as Poland's best-known folk music export, have a history of experimentation and collaboration. Sometimes...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2019
