Reviews
Fu Chronicles
This isn't your average Afrobeat album; this one explores not only messages of black power and equality, but also the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2020
Baguala de la Siesta
Ex-pat Argentinians in Paris are legion and involved in all kinds of musical projects, from Gotan Project’s Eduardo Makaroff to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2012
Movimento
You could say that Aline Frazão is the Mayra Andrade of Angola – a singer who has made a concerted...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2015
Cuba: Music and Revolution – Culture Clash in Havana Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85, Vol 2
Soul Jazz continue their excavation of Cuba’s Areito records with a second volume picking up where the first left off....
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2022
Lady On The Green
Rafe Stefanini was born in Italy and, like the Italian film director Sergio Leone, fell in love with the US...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2012
Nordic Notes #100: Great Tunes from Scandinavia
Nordic Notes is a German record label with a passion for the music of northern Europe and Finland in particular....
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2018
Mali in Oak
In 2015 kora and cello player Tunde Jegede and South African guitarist Derek Gripper played a candlelit concert as a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2017
Alasdair Roberts
In the past few years, Roberts has released the double album Wonder Working Stone, recorded an album with Scottish poet...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2015
Now We are Four
Now that no one's taking live music for granted, it makes the release of a new live album from Devon...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2021
Faya
New Yorker Joe Driscoll (now based in the UK and part of the One Taste collective) and Sekou Kouyaté, the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
