Reviews
Svod: Traditional Songs from Serbia and the Balkans
Bilja Krstic & Bistrik Orchestra
ARC Music is developing into one of the foremost record labels releasing new Balkan recordings – having issued excellent efforts...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2017
My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall
Anyone who enjoyed the 2019 Smithsonian Folkways album Songs of Our Native Daughters is going to love My Black Country....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
Sweet Rebels – The Golden Era of Algerian Pop-Raï
While Algerian rai has often been open to outside influences, the late 1980s saw a period of rapid modernisation as...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: June/2025
Egypt: Vocal & Instrumental Art of the 19th Century
Aïcha Redouane & Al-Adwar Ensemble
This recording is probably aimed more at aficionados of Middle Eastern classical music than the casual listener, for the real...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Mento, Not Calypso! The Original Sound of Jamaica
Mento, Not Calypso! treats us to more than 50 mento favourites, most from the pre-reggae style’s heyday, from the late...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: October/2013
Diablos del Ritmo: The Colombian Melting Pot 1960-1985
Africa collided with Latin America in myriad ways, from the complex rhythms of son, the Yoruba pulse underpinning cumbia to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Club Coco ¡AHORA! The Latin Sound of Now
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
A follow-up to 2021's Club Coco, this compilation by Mexican DJ Coco María showcases contemporary Afro-Latin sounds by home-based and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: August/September/2023
Tell Me The Truth Or Don’t Tell Me Anything
Over the past few years, Afro-jazz collective Ubunye have wowed audiences with their distinctive fusion of Zulu harmony singing, Afropop,...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: February/March/2026
Second Avenue Square Dance
Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys
Second Avenue Square Dance is the second CD on Traditional Crossroads by Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys (Barry...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2010
Mountain Meeting
Bridget Marsden & Leif Ottosson
Some records are special from the very first moment. Mountain Meeting opens with a single fiddle tune, a burbling figure...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
