Reviews
The Lucky Ones
Hailing from the Yukon Territory in the far north of Canada, The Lucky Ones took their name from Alistair MacLeod's...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2021
Café du Brésil
The award-winning label Frémeaux is synonymous with informative historical boxed sets. Paris Gadjo Club's album is a contemporary release but...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2018
Overheard
Birdsong features on a range of recent folk-inflected albums – our avian friends are the exotic new back-ups (although solo...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2022
Symbiosis II
The Ant & Dec of the Scottish trad music scene, if only because they no longer need surnames, Ross Ainslie...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
World Spirituality Classics, Volume 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Alice Coltrane's career, following the death of her husband, the legendary John, was remarkable for its dedication to the kind...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: July/2017
A Toda Cuba le Gusta
This welcome, remastered reissue of a classic World Circuit album should help to adjust an imbalance created by the phenomenon...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2018
Artifacts
“Miles Davis, Fela Kuti and Mulatu Astatke walk into a bar…” No, it's not a joke but one way of...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: April/2017
Africa Soyo
London-based Gnawa master Simo Lagnawi returns with his latest album, Africa Soyo, a clean, crisp recording – something that's very...
Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: April/2020
Stradivarius in Rio
Viktoria Mullova’s 2012 autobiography From Russia to Love describes how at the age of 24 she fled Soviet Russia in...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2014
Impuros Fanáticos
With Fumaça Preta having stormed the British critico-cultural barricades in spectacular fashion with their genre-mangling debut, it seems the hoary...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2016
