Reviews
Safari Boots
Safari Boots are a simple trio of guitar, bass and drums performing African guitar music with influences of predominantly Congolese...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Me Sijum Underground/I Am Underground
There's long been an underground Roma rap scene across Eastern Europe – in the late noughties Czech rapper GypsyCZ attracted...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Apr/May/2014
A Day a Month
It is hard to believe that A Day a Month is the first collaboration of those ubiquitous stalwarts of the...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2017
Vamo a Gozá
Supported by the Grammy Foundation, Irka Mateo travelled around the Dominican Republic documenting genres, even bringing one, comarca, to the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2018
The Longshot
Never has hard graft been so tenderly celebrated as on The Long Shot, the North¬umbrian husband-and-wife duo’s fourth album. Stu...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Ar Puro
The music of Guinea-Bissau – a tiny wedge of mangroves and jungle hidden between the borders of Senegal and Guinea...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2010
The Fairest Flower of Womankind
A native of Montana, a graduate of Berklee College of Music and a traditional balladeer, Lindsay Straw infuses familiar and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2017
Banquet of Boxes – A Celebration of the English Melodeon
Lots of jokes come my way because people know I like squeeze box music. Recently someone sent a cartoon showing...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
I Like it Like That (A Mi Me Gusta Asi)
Pianist Pete Rodriguez is one of the pioneers of Nuyorican music – Puerto Rican musicians in New York City –...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2020
The Shaigiya Sound of Sudan
Abu Obaida Hassan & His Tambour
The Shaigiya people claim lineage from the Arabian Peninsula but grew as a culture in Nubia. The music of the...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
