Reviews
Written in Water
There's a sense of loss as well as near-chaotic celebration about this collaboration between musicians of the Scottish Highlands and...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: December/2018
After a Thousand Years
Two years ago, Brooklyn-born musician producer Jneiro Jarel had virtually completed this album, while he was living in Costa Rica....
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: December/2020
So Much to Defend
As a certain Nobel Prize-winning songwriter once wrote, ‘people are crazy, times are strange’ and that has rarely been so...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2017
O Ku Ngwo Di Ochi
Oriental Brothers International Band
Fifty years ago the Oriental Brothers were a kind of Nigerian boy band. Hailing from the Igbo-dominated eastern region of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022
Oberlin 1968
It’s the 1960s. They wear swinging, Carnaby Street clobber. Their performances are famously forthright and intense, yet funny and entertaining....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
The Fragile
O’Hooley & Tidow were mightily impress¬ive at the Nowt So Queer as Folk concert at Cecil Sharp House, the home...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012
North Korea: Traditional Songs
This album features traditional north-western seodo sori, a genre of songs once associated with courtesans, and a smattering of collective...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Madjafalao
Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
One of the great West African big bands of the 1970s, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo were Benin’s answer to Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
More Than One
From the very beginning of this album it is apparent that we are dealing with musicians as equally well-versed in...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2020
