Reviews
Cyprus Well
Cyprus Well is a terrace of small houses in Launceston, a town just west of the Tamar, the river between...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2013
Wulu Wulu
A decade away from music seems to have given veteran Nigerian bandleader Bongos Ikwue a new lease of life. The...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Apr/May/2013
Umbrellowhead
Come across this on a shelf and you’ll think you’ve found a new Bellowhead album. But what we have here...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2010
A Tiempo
Hailing from Triana, Seville's one time Gypsy quartei and home of classic flamenco, Rosario Guerrero Hernández, aka ‘La Tremendita’, has...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2011
Rendhagyo Primastalalkozo
In Hungarian, primás usually refers to the lead fiddler of a band, but other instrumentalists, such as the cimbalom player,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2010
Kulture Noir
She sings beautifully. She writes and composes. She speaks out against injustice. She makes her own out-there clothing. If ever...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Beginner’s Guide to Celtic
How do you avoid the inevitable clichés of ‘Celticness’? This three-CD beginner's compilation has set itself an unenviable task. BBC...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2011
Cheek Mountain Thief
This album is OK. This album is not terrible. But the buck has to stop somewhere. The world simply does...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Urban Spirit
Diogal Sakho is a long-time resident of Paris but was born amongst the Lebou people of N'gor, a staunchly independent...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Freedom Cry:Condemned Choirs
More than 550 men and women sit on death row in Uganda's prisons, condemned for crimes that include not only...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
