Reviews
Can You Feel It?
Last year the excellent Canadian crate-digging label We Are Busy Bodies reissued Armitage Road, a 1970 album by South African...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2021
Betwixt & Between 11
Bridget & Kitty/Resonant Bodies
Betwixt & Between Tapes is a quirky, niche proposition: an occasional series of cassette tape EPs featuring traditional, improvised and...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2024
The Nefes of the Bektâshî Sufi Brotherhood in Istanbul and the Balkans
This album explores peripheries, spirituality and history. Arising from the seventh Bîrûn workshop in Ottoman music organised by neyzen (a...
Reviewed by Thomas Graves in issue: October/2019
Willie Watson
Since co-founding the much-acclaimed Old Crow Medicine Show, Willie Watson has spent around a quarter of a century as an...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2024
Take a Knife and Open My Heart
We've not returned to the golden age of vinyl, but we have entered the age of the collectible object of...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Sounds and Silence: Music for the Film
Divorced from the documentary that it soundtracks [reviewed on p103], Sounds And Silence effectively becomes a plain and simple ECM...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Here and Now (Live at City Club)
Walid Ben Selim, from Casablanca, started out as a rapper, most notably leading contemporary Arabic-language band N3rdistan, but since then...
Reviewed by Jean Berry in issue: January/2025
Toubab Soul
As this solid debut testifies, Alma Afrobeat Ensemble is one of the tighter collectives in the genre. Fela Kuti’s template...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2011
Jindo Island: Funeral and Shamanic Chants
Having featured several other Korean (both North and South) traditional genres in its long-running collection of field recordings, this time...
Reviewed by Anna Yates-Lu in issue: May/2019
