Reviews
El Mito de la Pérgola
If any musician is going to reconfigure the airy strangeness of Andean music, Chilean singer Pascuala Ilabaca might be the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2018
A Gathering of Strangers 2021
Transglobal Underground & Our European Friends
A Gathering of Strangers first saw light in 2010 when it was released by a pan-EU collective headed by dubtronic...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2021
Got to Be Tough
The first Toots and the Maytals release in over ten years is a big deal for reggae enthusiasts. The 77-year-old...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2020
Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow
The folk quartet Spiro rework English dance tunes under the aegis of minimalism and systems music; these are tunes that...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2015
Martin Carthy
This seminal 1965 debut from the godfather of the 60s English folk revival is reissued on vinyl as part of...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2024
Last Breaths from Aleppo
One of the side effects of the Syrian civil war has been its threat to the rich Sufi musical tradition...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2023
Thai? Dai! The Heavier Side of the Luk Thung Underground
The typical Thai luk thung (often described as ‘country music’) shows of the 1970s were glitzy affairs with huge orchestras...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: Apr/May/2011
1970s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
A pair of fascinating albums mining a fruitful seam of musical esoterica – the Algerian 45rpm vinyl releases of the...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Haiti: Meringue & Konpa 1952-1962
An earlier Frémeaux release, 2014's Dominican Republic: Merengue, excelled in profiling the small-combo and orchestra roots of merengue in the...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
