Reviews
Ear to the Eye
Following on from last year’s compact, 22-minute Wild Wet World with its aquatic orchestra of sounds, comes a gargantuan 22-song...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2024
Tewesta: Remembrance
On the surface there’s not a great deal to dislike about Tewesta (Remembrance), a new recording fronted by guitarist Girum...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Bollywood
Bollywood rode high in the 60s and 70s. Playback singers were the stars of their day and musical directors had...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2013
Viyezgo: Vimbuza from Mzimba South
Vimbuza is a ceremony of the Tumbuka people of Malawi, where people become healed through trance and the possession of...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2022
Shimmer Gold
The second release from Estonian trio Trad.Attack! picks up where their debut left off. ‘Talgo’ opens ferociously with a pounding...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2017
Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams
What’s appealingly apparent in the opening moments of this album’s first track, recorded 91 years ago, is that the instrument...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2018
Sensitive Skin
Finnish accordion adventurer Kimmo Pohjonen says, rather surprisingly, that Sensitive Skin is the first album he has made on which...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2015
