Reviews
Trumpet King Zeal Onyia Returns
When Louis Armstrong toured West Africa in 1961, he dubbed Onyia ‘the highlife hep cat of Nigerian jazz trumpet.’ One...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2019
Bibirosi
William Takaku & Pidia Kaur Group
Bougainville is an autonomous island region of eastern Papua New Guinea, but geographically, historically and culturally, it’s closely connected to...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2014
Keme Borama
This is the first internationally released recording from griot guitarist Tiecoro Sissoko and sadly it is a posthumous debut, Sissoko...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2014
The Arch
This collaboration, only released recently, may have been the last work of the respected French musician, producer and remix specialist...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Apr/May/2013
One and All
For years The Fisherman’s Friends entertained their mates, holidaymakers and most of all themselves, by singing shanties every week in...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Rhinoceros
In case you haven’t yet heard, the Green Rock River Band are a London-based eight-piece purveying acoustic music infused by...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
When Jeremy Dutcher received the Polaris Prize (the Canadian equivalent of the Mercury Prize) for this album in September, he...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Ageless Garden
Mehmet Polat is from Urfa in Turkey, overlooking the Euphrates, so looking towards Syria and Iraq rather than Istanbul. He...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2018
Come Back To Me
Originally from the Ivory Coast Peter One emigrated to the US to escape Civil War. Prior to this, he released...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2023
