Reviews
Mogoya
The last time this reviewer interviewed Oumou Sangaré was in January 2009. She was about to release the album Seya...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2017
Too Long in This Condition
Supposedly Alasdair Roberts is a human male born in the 1970s, raised in central Scotland and a resident of Glasgow...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2010
Kind of Folk: Vol 1 Sweden
Mysterious flutes beckon us into a forest. A haunting fiddle beguiles us with tunes from an age gone by. A...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2017
Music for Hope
Indian sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan has done a few collaborative recordings with musicians from other traditions – for instance...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2023
Addis to Omega
Those familiar with the heavily Ethiopian-influenced band heard on the last three Dub Colossus albums will hardly recognise this new...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Intercosmic
I sometimes recall a faintly surreal encounter outside the Bosnian city of Mostar, a few years after the war, in...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2022
We Have One Destiny
Ayuune Sule discovered his passion for playing the kologo — a two-stringed lute — learning from the musicians who would...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: June/2018
Samba em Kigali
Following 2022's well-streamed Voyage, the Belgian duo of rapper and lyricist Alessandro ‘Le Tagarel’ Vlerick and producer and composer Simon...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2023
