Reviews
Wriggle and Writhe
Having recently won both the Best Duo and Best Musician awards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, expectations are...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2012
Esencia
Studio-recorded mariachi needs to be kept loose and as live-sounding as possible to work at all. With its female and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2019
Jive & Soul: The Very Best Of
Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens/The Soul Brothers
It’s highly unusual to combine two different artists on a ‘Best Of’ set like this, but the teaming of two...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Bass Culture, Volume 1: This Town is Too Hot!
In line with Jamaica’s 50th anniversary of independence, Nascente Records have compiled a four-volume, 160-track summary of the island’s greatest...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2012
#NuNairobi
Not just the banner for a new wave of artists, creatives and entrepreneurs that are proud to call the Kenyan...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2019
Genius Loci 2: The Valley of Iron
This is the second part of the Genius Loci project from the prolific instrumental duo of fiddler Adam Summerhayes and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2022
Pesme iz Jasenovca (Songs from Jasenovac)
‘Emergency ethnomusicology,’ as they call it, is a set of urgent interventions needing to be taken to record or preserve...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: June/2017
Manos Panamericanos
The story of this unlikely duo, Larry & Joe, is a powerful indictment of US immigration. A renowned musician and...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: January/2025
Take Me to the Dance
Though Freshlyground is a pan-African outfit, with members from Mozambique and Zimbabwe, the bohemian Cape Town septet is undoubtedly a...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2013
Mud Doll
Single-handedly produced, recorded, arranged, mixed and mastered by British talent Niraj Chag, this is ambitiously lofty (if occasionally bombastic) cinematic...
Reviewed by Jon Mitchell in issue: November/2015
