Reviews
Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking
This is literally a cassette mixtape, limited to 300 copies, although also available digitally. The mechanics of cooking, the sociability...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: March/2024
Hidden People
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Hidden People is a neat title for Kathryn Roberts and her husband Sean Lakeman’s debut album. Both were well-known before...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Synthetic Hearts
Asanda Lusaseni Mvana, better known by her performing name Msaki, won Female Artist of the Year at the South African...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2023
Do Claro ao Breu
Sopa de Pedra are a Portuguese vocal ten-piece that got together ten years ago – which some may know already...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2022
The Ripple Effect
A dozen years ago, the American banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck took a journey across Africa to research the origins of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020
The Sound of Club Secousse Vol 1
VARIOUS ARTISTS Radioclit presents
Belgium’s Crammed label have been on a roll these last few years, what with Congotronics and its associated artists –...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Access Denied
Brexit, Trump and the rise of right-wing populism has positively cried out for the militant intervention of Asian Dub Foundation,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
Leaving Eden
The new release from the American acoustic trio comes with high expect¬ations, after its pre¬decessor, Genuine Negro Jig won a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2012
Natural Angle
Nearing the end of their first decade together, Gráda have returned to the recording studio for the first time since...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2010
Fado e Amor
Fado fans will hoover up this disc of duets between Carlos do Carmo, who is something of an elder statesman...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: March/2014
