Reviews
Kamale Blues
That Harouna Samaké has been Salif Keita's kamalengoni player for the past 17 years tells you all you need to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2018
Live at WOMAD 1982
Can it really be 40 years since the first WOMAD took place at the Royal Bath and West Showground in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2022
Veena Dreams
Raghunath Manet is originally from Puducherry in South India and splits his time between there and France. He is not...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2023
Psychedelic Train: Expanded Edition
Derrick Harriott & The Crystalites
Derrick Harriott is a major figure in Jamaican music, his career as a producer, songwriter, label owner and singer having...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Naming & Blaming
The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra
This is the second album from the Melbourne-based Public Opinion Afro Orchestra and it is unabashedly Afrobeat. The group take...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019
Sol: A Series of Reflections
From the very first track, ‘Call’, it's clear that in Sol, Joshua Hyde intends to deal more in atmospheres than...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Yiddish Journey: The Music of Lenka Lichtenberg
For better or worse, Jewish song often contends with a dizzying array of demands, from dealing with painful memory to...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: May/2016
Mysterious Duality – Just Me
Jayanthi Kumaresh is one of India’s leading performers of the veena, an ancient lute which produces a rich and deeply...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2011
Papa Lemon: New Orleans Ukulele Maestro & Tent Show Troubadour
The one thing we are not told in the evocative and often hilarious liner notes of this album, is whether...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2014
