Reviews
Kai Tu Užaha?
I thought I was familiar with most forms of Gypsy music but this album, recorded by the Finnish Roma singer...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2012
World Ballads
This is the latest in Network’s usually excellent two-disc ‘longbox’ series. A decade or so ago, the similarly packaged Desert...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2010
Talé
Baaba Maal did it with 2009's Television. Amadou & Mariam followed last year with Folila. Now Salif Keita has joined...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2013
Beginner’s Guide to Africa
These kind of compilations, which seek to present what the box describes as ‘the best of African music, past, present...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2013
Gift
Although Eliza Carthy has sung with her mother all her life, and recorded and toured with her in Waterson: Carthy,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Somos
Behind mestizo musics often lie unique stories. In the case of the three Villalobos brothers, it's a tale for our...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2020
Tooth & Nail
When you’re used to hearing Barking¬born Billy tetchily dissecting the state of the British nation in his sardonic foghorn of...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: June/2013
Ghetto Blasters
And so the part) goes on. It seems hard to believe that Romanian Gypsy firebrands MRB have only been around...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
