Reviews
Madres
The title of this Berlin-based Peruvian artist’s debut album translates as ‘Mothers’. It’s dedicated to both her mother and the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2023
Çhâñt Électrónïqúe Vol 1
‘We are very, very curious,' this aptly named international seven-piece collective suggests – and what a curious album this is....
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2021
Taoba
A new group from the Solomon Islands, Kaumaakonga hail from the small southern isles of Mungava and Mungiki (jointly referred...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2019
Failde Con Tumbao
Cuban bandleader and flautist Ethiel Failde is the great-great nephew of Miguel Failde, the Matanzas composer who in the late...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2020
At Peace
Like Toumani Diabaté, Ballaké Sissoko is kora royalty. Around the same age, they are both sons of Malian griot kora...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2013
Beautiful Africa
We have come to expect a lot from young Malian pop-rock singer Rokia Traoré, who surprised the world with her...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2013
Transatlantic Sessions 4: Volume 2
The second CD release taken from last year's fourth outing of the Transatlantic Sessions TV series captures – much better...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
The Road Is Never Easy
Two sessions, both three days long, were all it took for South Africa’s BCUC – Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness –...
Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: May/2026
Follow Them True
Anyone who has seen Stick in the Wheel live recently will know just what a diamond-hard machine they have become....
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2018
Such Times
Steve Tilston made his first album, An Acoustic Confusion, in 1971, gaining a place in a cohort of exceptional guitar-playing...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2021
