Reviews
Syrr
It’s been more than eight years since Maryam Saleh’s last album. A stalwart of the Egyptian alternative scene, many believed...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2026
Far From Home
This Pacific Northwest Irish and Scottish trad band centres around the beguiling flute and whistle playing of Hanz Araki, a...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: May/2026
You No Fit Touch Am
There is Femi and Seun Kuti, of course, and the ever-dextrous iconic Tony Allen, who guests hither and yon. But...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2015
Cocinando
Vampisoul unlock a dozen more Peruvian tropical curios. Recorded between 1969 and 1971, the bandleader (a policeman using an assumed...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/2025
OVA
This is a bittersweet triumph from one of the world’s finest fusion bands. The Afro Celts were founded by Simon...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2024
Loudon Live in London
An excellent overview of the six-decade-long career of one of America’s preeminent (and funniest) troubadours. Recorded during a three-night stand...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2025
It's Klezmer!
The title says it all really. This is a solid collection of traditional tunes with a handful of originals, including...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2016
Hurry the Jug
Leonard Barry, Declan Folan & Shane McGowan
Leonard Barry, Declan Folan and Shane McGowan's long comradeship in countless live sessions pays crisp, spryly accented dividends aplenty in...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2020
Éthiopiques 24: Golden Years of Ethiopian Music 1969-1975
If the news that there are two new volumes of the magnificent, hugely influential and spectacularly long– running Ethiopiques series...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: Apr/May/2010
Anywhere On This Road
The series we’d hoped would run forever is over. Charlie Gillett's annual double-disc survey of his favourite sounds from the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: October/2010
