Reviews
Tangos
Rubén Blades is good at lots of things: singing, acting, writing salsa hits, being Panama's tourism minister, campaigning (against Sun...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Last Mile Home
The final entry in Boden’s ‘post-oil’ trilogy is an acoustic and spare iteration of his apocalyptic themes, set against the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2021
The Wedding Above in Glencree
Since deciding to become a musician after seeing Christy Moore perform on Irish TV and then cutting his teeth as...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2023
If He Dies, If If If If If If
Not so much a group as a multi-media project, Jerusalem in My Heart consist of Lebanon-born Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2016
Oté Maloya: The Birth of Electric Maloya on Réunion Island 1975-1984
Now this is a compilation to be treasured. Maloya is the roots music of La Réunion, a diasporic African mix...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: August/2017
Zamaan Ya Sukkar: Exotic Love Songs and Instrumentals from the Egyptian 60s
Ghent-based record label and DJ collective Radio Martiko answered the prayers of rare record enthusiasts worldwide when they re-released Abdou...
Reviewed by Joshua French in issue: November/2018
Tell Me Why
Widely acknowledged as one of Australia’s most celebrated indigenous singer-songwriters, Archie Roach’s long career is slowly drawing to a close....
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: December/2020
AH!
Trad.Attack! is the latest group to combine traditional folk music styles with a contemporary approach. Formed by a trio of...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2015
Nostalgic Bollywood: Memorable Songs from Films of Love and Devotion (1939-1959)
This sumptuous compilation offers a detailed survey of Indian movie songs from throughout the genre's Golden Age during the 1940s...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2023
Sranan Gowtu
The music of the Republic of Suriname, located in the north-east of Latin America, is unfamiliar to many. There's a...
Reviewed by Bastiaan Springer in issue: Apr/May/2014
