Reviews
Rwanda Sings With Strings
On the surface, the fifth album by Rwandan duo The Good Ones is a departure from the usual modus operandi...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: September/2025
Río Abajo
Now domiciled in Lyon, France, this young Venezuelan singer, percussionist and member of the Réunionese-Venezuelan quartet, Parranda La Cruz, has...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: September/2025
Vintage Balkan Beats
While this compilation's title cheekily refers to that club craze for remixes of Balkan brass tunes, the recordings here are...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2014
Sole Mates
Two years or so past their quarter-century anniversary, Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends have put together an album of shanties and...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: July/2018
Monoswezi Yanga
This is the second album from a remarkable collaboration between African and Scandinavian musicians. The name Monoswezi is an amalgamation...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Russian Folksongs in the Key of Sadness
Evgeny Masloboev & Anastasia Masloboeva
Leo Records, which has released artists such as Sun Ra, Evan ParkerandArt Ensemble of Chicago, has long been an important...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Oh Yeah Habibi
Google the word ‘Arabicana’ and you’ll either find restaurants in Dubai and Edinburgh or a musical style of the same...
Reviewed by Stan Rijven in issue: April/2016
nOUD
Antranig Kzirian is theoudplayer, a Philadelphia-born musician of Armenian extraction who has learned his craft from members of his country's...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: May/2018
Kiniata
Kinshasa is surely one of the world’s most exciting musical cities, and Kin’Gongolo Kiniata are the latest proponents of that...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2025
