Reviews
Moa Anbessa
Possibly taking a leaf out of the book of his compatriot and contemporary Mulatu Astatke, the Ethiopian saxophonist – and...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: June/2010
Vive I’Amour
Too bad if you weren’t there to witness these talented Cajun ladies performing at the funky and friendly Blue Moon...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Breton Music for Dummies
This is the first ‘Music for Dummies’ package I’ve come across. But I’ve been enlightened by the brand’s efforts, in...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
L'Udová Hudba Pokošovci 2
Pokošovci Band are a Slovak Gypsy group largely made up of members of the Pokoš family. They are based in...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2020
Love Bollywood
There are 33 songs here, all wrapped up in a lipstick-red case, and all but two of them were recorded...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2011
O
This album prompts that age-old question: is simply singing in a foreign language enough to be world music? Or as...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2013
Congo – Pygmy Polyphonies from North Congo
This is a stunning collection of one of the world’s most extraordinary vocal expressions: yeli, the polyphonic yodeling from the...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
North Wind
Flying Down Thunder & Rise Ashen
When Flying Down Thunder and Rise Ashen released their first opus, 2011’s One Nation, with its mix of Aboriginal chants...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: October/2013
World Massala
Manu Chao was probably the first internationally recognised artist to really nail world fusion – from his early days rocking...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris
The impressive scholarship and production nous of the Atlanta-based Dust-to-Digital label is here applied to a multimedia collection of the...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: July/2018
