Reviews
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
Sud de la Louisiane
A pared-down version of the legendary Foghorn Stringband, this trio of heel-kicking musicians from Portland, Oregon, play mandolin, banjo, fiddle,...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: October/2011
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
Biyedi
With a griot ancestry and over 30 years of records to his name, Kerfala Kanté deserves his high regard in...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2012
