Reviews
The One and The Many
Great things are expected of Muntu Valdo, the Cameroonian musician who turned up in London from Paris three years ago...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2011
Volume One 1970-1979
‘Sorry’? The unusual first name is probably an Anglicisation of ‘Sorhy,’ which is itself a twisted version of the common...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
For One Touch
Jure Tori is one of Slovenia's most celebrated accordionists, known for hopping with enviable ease between jazz, classical, Gypsy and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2017
We Have One Destiny
Ayuune Sule discovered his passion for playing the kologo — a two-stringed lute — learning from the musicians who would...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: June/2018
Festival Bell
Umpteen albums have come and gone since the original Fairport line-up started playing West Coast pop covers in 1967. As...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011
One Voice
An 11-piece band from the small indigenous community of Baniyala, situated on Blue Mud Bay in the Top End’s Gulf...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2023
You’re the One
With You’re the One, Giddens is clearly hoping to broaden her appeal beyond the folk/roots/Americana stockade and her fan club...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2023
Everybody Wants to Know How I Die
The fifth album of demon-haunted country blues from Canada’s scariest songwriter. Sinner takes traditional songs as his jumping-off point, expanding...
Reviewed by Paul Slade in issue: April/2026
One Thought Away
If you’re not familiar with Gurtu's remarkable versatility as a tabla maestro and composer who has played with everyone from...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2023
Number One Bus
Dressed in griot-chic and wielding his gimbri like a Fender Stratocaster, Nuru Kane comes on like a trans-Saharan cross between...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2010
