Reviews
Bachata Haiti
While Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the same island they are divided – the French colonised Haiti while the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019
Live at WOMAD 1985
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party
Marking its 30th anniversary, Real World Records has released this album as a tribute to the late qawwali king, Nusrat...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2019
Wolf Rune
Being in a room with Sinikka Langeland is like being charmed into a northern forest under a night sky. Her...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2021
Urgent Jumping! East African Musiki Wa Dansi Classics
We live in a glorious age, in which record companies are eager to open up their vaults in order to...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2016
Vårvindar Friska
Here are two musicians who discovered some sort of magic potion in a cellar in Stockholm when they played two...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2019
Kind of Folk: Vol 1 Sweden
Mysterious flutes beckon us into a forest. A haunting fiddle beguiles us with tunes from an age gone by. A...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2017
Digging the Underground Vol 1: The Nation Years
Right now, it's with rainbow-tinted nostalgia that we remember the good old bad days of the early 1990s, a time...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2016
Tidens Ekko
Vingefang are a duo comprising Lene Høst and Miriam Ariana, who are both former students of Scandinavian folk music at...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: October/2018
Político
The Mexican Institute of Sound certainly know how to have a knees-up – in the pot of musical treats is...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Sky Blue Love
Anyone interested in 70 minutes of rather clinical, polite dub reggae? OK, that's a little unfair, but there's something about...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2016
