Reviews
Here and There
Since its (then) undiscovered flowering in the 1970s, Ethio-jazz has spread around the musical world like an exotic plant. Before...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2022
Baila Sahara Baila
Mariem Hassan & Vadiya Mint El Hanevi
This is the final album from one of the great voices of the Sahara: Mariem Hassan died in August 2015...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2016
You’ve Been a Friend to Me
Sonya Cohen Cramer was a remarkable singer born into a distinguished American folk music family; her father was John Cohen...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: August/2024
The Shovel Dance
Lankum aren’t the only purveyors of doom-laden folk. London-based nine-piece Shovel Dance Collective show with this, their second album, that...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2024
Don’t Keep Silent
The title of this New Zealand funk/fusion outfit’s second album couldn’t be more appropriate. Across the album’s 11 tracks Batucada...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Rooftop Sessions
The piano keys fall like drops of water, the violin soars like a gull over 0resund, while the delicate pluck...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
The Complete Works of Fela Anikulapo Kuti
It’s never been easy to make a sensible suggestion when asked to nominate the best starting point to the music...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2011
Sole Kitchen
Along the highways and byways in and around Portland, Oregon, there are so many microbreweries dispensing fine beers and even...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: October/2010
Høyre du, Mann! Langeleikopptak 1955-83
The National Library of Norway is extremely good at archiving historical recordings and making their collections available for wider listening....
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2021
Tall Fiddler
There is a temptation for top-level bluegrass musicians to make pretentious, over-complicated fusion albums. This is not one of those....
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2020
