Reviews
Lady Sings the Balkan Blues
Mostar Sevdah Reunion are a Bosnian institution. Emerging out of the ruins of war-torn Bosnia in 1998, tending the traditions...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: March/2023
Türlü
Haci Tekbilek is a gruff vocalist and a fine performer on several Turkish instruments, including saz, sax, bendir drum and,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2010
Pressure to Pleasure
Recorded live in studios in Lagos and London by a sprawling Afrobeat band led by bassist and vocalist Femi Sofela,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2018
Magic Nights
Fifty years after his debut LP, Christ Moore's latest solo offering sees the Irish icon trawling though his live back...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2020
The Kankobela of the Batonga Vol 1
Once fishermen and farmers on the rich alluvial banks of the Zambezi, the Batonga were driven at gun¬point from their...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: March/2010
Independence Ska and the Far East Sound
The Skatalites' brief original existence from 1963 to 1965 surely marks them out as one of the most influential bands...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2017
Ritka Magyar Vol 1
The folk music revival in Hungary, and the dance house scene that was its driving force, are now nigh-on half...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
First Steps
Fiddler Martin Clarke and melodeon player Will Allen are Brown Boots, fine players and purveyors of trad dance tunes –...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2020
Tabla Jugalbandi for Ustad Shamsuddin Khan’s Punyatithi, 1968
This is a very rare private recording from 1968, featuring two percussion maestros of yesteryear, the twins Shashi (who died...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2012
Áššu
Áššu (Ulla Pirttijärvi, Harald Skullerud & Olav Torget)
If joik was a person, it'd be the type who could turn up at any house party and somehow find...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: June/2019
