Reviews
Antoinette Konan
This 1986 recording predates the coupé-décalé phenomenon and launched a career that saw Antoinette Konan become a popular public figure...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020
Sweet England
Released in 1959 on Argo, this album comes from the beginning of the folk revival, and Fledgling’s remaster from the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Blue Cha Cha
Galbán’s pedigree as Cuba’s finest electric guitarist ran from his 1960s work with Los Zafiros to his late flowering on...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Cherie Na N’ga
Born Belangeni Musumbu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bel was raised in Kinshasa but is now resident in London....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2013
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn
As the world's premier banjo player, Fleck has ranged across jazz, classical and world music, dramatically expanding the instrument's repertoire...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds
Conjunto is the music of working class Mexican Americans across the south-west. Los Texmaniacs are four Texan veterans who have...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Strange People
The third release from Portuguese klezmer quintet Melech Mechaya achieves what all klezmer bands set out to do – to...
Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Mawja
The Sahrawi refugee camps are situated out in the deserts of southern Algeria, and are home to the victims of...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2024
Halleli N'Dakarou
This autumn's surprise from Africa comes from Banjul in the Gambia, in the shape of a band who are described...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Light Ida Lum
In the grand tradition of the currently inactive Fiddler's Bid, whose Maurice Henderson features in this group's three-fiddle frontline, Haltadans...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2020
