Reviews
Chicken & Egg
The 13th studio album from one of contemporary America's most prolific, adventurous and adaptable folk/country musicians, Chicken & Egg is...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: October/2010
Bulimundo/Djam Brancu Dja
Most readers will associate Cape Verde with the languid, melancholic mornas made famous by the great singer Cesaria Evora, or...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Talûş
Yıldırım is a young Turkish musician specialising in the kamancha (spiked fiddle), called kabak kemane in Anatolia where a dried...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2021
Orchids and Violence
A talented young guitarist and immediately likeable singer, Michael Daves made one of the most enjoyable bluegrass albums of recent...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: May/2016
Early Congo Music 1946-1962: First Rumba, to the Real Rumba
Early Congo Music 1946-1962 has been compiled and annotated by Japanese collector Yoshiki Fukasawa. His unusual sub-title comes from the...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2019
Tradi-Mods vs Rockers – Alternative Takes on Congotronics
The Congotronics remix album was inevitable, of course. The primitively electrified ambience of Konono No 1 and the Kasai Allstars...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
In the Key of Joy
Parental guidance: multitude of guest artists. The rapper Common, for example, (dis)graces the opening track on the venerable Mr Mendes'...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2020
Deeyah Presents: Iranian Woman
One of the most interesting untold stories (outside Iran) of music after the 1979 revolution is the emergence of an...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: Apr/May/2014
Round Top Wagon
Thomas McCarthy was brought up on the Travellers’ site in Ladbroke Grove, although he spent a lot of time in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011
Gran’s House
Bristol-based DJ and producer Jay Singh, AKA Indian Man, joins a wave of artists of South Asian descent putting their...
Reviewed by Izzy Felton in issue: November/2024
