Reviews
The Collection
Gospel music is the biggest selling genre in South Africa and the Lusanda Spiritual Group rival Ladysmith Black Mambazo and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Rare and Glorious
Ravi Shankar is undoubtedly the world’s best-known Indian musician. His name has not only become synonymous with his instrument, the...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
The Voice of Lightness Vol 2: Congo Classics 1977-1993
The second two-disc volume of the definitive career overview of Tabu Ley Rochereau picks up the Congo’s greatest vocalist at...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2011
The Griot's Craft
The previous solo album from the Bembeya Jazz/Africando singer and voice of Guinea to receive an international release was Sinikan,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2013
Tamala
Bao Sissoko, Mola Sylla & Wouter Vandenabeele
The title translates as ‘Travellers,’ an apt name for an album that reveals an intriguing trio from very different musical...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Beyond the Blue
Jamaican toasting legend Big Youth collaborates here with travelling French producers Brain Damage and Sam Clayton Jr in a heady...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Zoot!
The prose of their website links this new sextet from Prince Edward Island with ‘a time when pleasure usurped profession...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
In a Lifetime
Tickets are on sale for Clannad's farewell tour, and to go with it, various weights of a Best Of anthology,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020
Broken Down Gentlemen
Faustus was the man with the magic touch, though it came at the price of damnation. Faustus the band share...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2013
Manghoua Foura
The Wassoulou region of southern Mali has an incredible record for producing great female singers. They were celebrated with Sterns’...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2012
