Reviews
Sachal Jazz
This CD has been featured all over the place – CNN, the BBC and Al-Jazeera – and has already been...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Exiles Return
The Waterford singer with crystalline tones, Karan Casey, and the Dublin guitar maestro John Doyle both made names for themselves...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Apr/May/2010
The Kusum Beat
That the author of the liner notes, in archetypal 1970s African self¬empowerment fashion, signs himself ‘Super Star’ is as likely...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2010
Strength to Survive: Deluxe EU Version
Last year, Virginia-based reggae outfit SOJA (Soldiers of Jah Army) released their fourth album Strength to Survive. The title was...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2013
Acoustic
Oumou Sangaré's label have certainly got some mileage out of her brilliant 2017 album, Mogoya. It was followed a year...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
The Art of the Chinese Guzheng
This album is a tribute to the main regional styles of guzheng (21-string zither) music in China. Having worked with...
Reviewed by Hyelim Kim in issue: June/2019
Front Line: Sounds of Reality
Despite lasting less than two years, Virgin Records’ Front Line label produced some of the finest roots reggae of the...
Reviewed by Clyde Mcfarlane in issue: October/2014
Tortadur
Fans of Sevara Nazarkhan's two Real World albums are in for a surprise here – but it is an entirely...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Forever is 4 You
This could just as well be by a Malawi Mouse Boy, rather than Boys, as the music is so minimalist...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: May/2016
Up From The Deep
Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts
Nominated for a BBC Horizon Award for best new act in 2010, and both graduates of the Leeds College of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
