Reviews
Upside Down
Mauricio Maestro & Nana Vasconcelos
Touted as an epistle from a ‘ time when people dared to make liberated records.’ this collaboration between two Brazilian...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2012
ImmiGrand Deluxe
Montréal is a chilly place for five months a year but Wesli, a singer born and raised in Haiti, is...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2018
Monoswezi Yanga
This is the second album from a remarkable collaboration between African and Scandinavian musicians. The name Monoswezi is an amalgamation...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Po Drum Mome/A Girl on the Road
London-based Bulgarian singer Eugenia Georgieva presents an exploration of Bulgarian song with this album, having already established herself as a...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2018
Cuttin' Grass Vol 2: The Cowboy Arms Sessions
Sturgill Simpson's Cuttin' Grass Vol 2 features the same combination of insightful, often satirically humorous and self-deprecating, songwriting and brilliant...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2021
Mostar Sevdah Reunion Presents Sreta: The Balkan Autumn
The music filtered for consumption by the ‘world music industry’ may well bear little relationship to the music listened to...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: November/2018
Stand Up Now: Songs from the Landworkers’ Alliance
The canon of British folk song is rich with stories and beautiful evocations of landscape, nature, country life and work....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2021
The Rough Guide to World Music For Children
The liner notes of this compilation of 18 tracks from World Music Network's excellent back catalogue claim that youthful listeners...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Black Man's Cry: The Inspiration Of Fela Kuti
Seemingly Fela Kuti is fi na lly star tin g to receive the long-overdue mainstream recognition his work deserves. Along...
Reviewed by Ollie Sanders in issue: June/2010
Diary of a Fiddler #2: The Empty Nest
Darol Anger may not have invented the bluegrass fiddle ‘chop’ (he learned it from originator Richard Green, who created it...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: September/2025
