Reviews
Swaziland: Songs of the Swazi
Despite the 82–year reign of Sobhuza II – the “hip king’’ eulogised by South African jazzer Abdullah Ibrahim – Swaziland...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Son of Africa
Flopping on release by Island Records in 1976 — the label too busy with reggae star Bob Marley to promote...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: August/September/2023
He is #1
The Malawi Mouse Boys take their name from how they make their living when not playing music – selling mice...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2012
Can't You Hear the Mountains Calling
Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys feat Charlie Sizemore
From the time he formed the original Clinch Mountain Boys with his brother Carter Stanley, while bluegrass music was in...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2010
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
The recordings of Lead Belly, made between his discovery in prison in 1933 by the folklorists John and Alan Lomax...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2015
Ar Puro
The music of Guinea-Bissau – a tiny wedge of mangroves and jungle hidden between the borders of Senegal and Guinea...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2010
La Próxima Traición
Tango has always reflected society – especially Buenos Aires’ urban society, but also, at various times, that of Paris, New...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2020
Beginners Guide To African Blues
This isn't the place to debate the African origins of the blues. All we really need note is that modern...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2011
Such Times
Steve Tilston made his first album, An Acoustic Confusion, in 1971, gaining a place in a cohort of exceptional guitar-playing...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2021
Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts
Once in a while, an artist from the outside punches a dirty great hole through the usually impenetrable wall of...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
