Reviews
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
Monarch
Listen to the whirling guitar riffs, pulsing harmonica shouts and virile vocals on ‘Little Bird’, the opening track of this...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2018
Golden Horns
Boban i Marko Marković Orkestar
Down amongst the orchards of Serbia, the Marković Orkestar have fashioned a sound that’s punchy, exhilarating and irresistible to the...
Reviewed by Joe Walker in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Waves of Joy: Bauls from Bengal
Born in Bengal in 1921, Bhattacharya came to the UK after World War II, worked for the Post Office and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2019
Quaranta
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
Quaranta, CGS's new release, celebrates four decades of the group's existence. It is awe-inspiring, stirring and soulful; with an array...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2015
Fly Down Little Bird
Mike Seeger was widely mourned when he passed away in August 2009, aged 75. While not as famous as his...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2011
Call of the Blues
After meeting at a festival in Mumbai in 2013, the British guitarist Michael Messer and Manish Pingle, who plays the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2016
Welcome Marhaba
Soldiering on, decades after the demise of role models Carte de Sejour (Rachid Taha's old band), Zen Zila is perhaps...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
