Reviews
Pervane: Fl0yet fra Guds Hand
Turkey is famous as a meeting point of East and West. Fittingly, Pervane (Butterfly) is a piece that was created...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2014
Ya Tengo lo Que Queria!
Ya Tengo lo Que Quería! doesn’t sound like an album made in London. In that sense it’s great evidence of...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2013
Son of Man
Britain's roots reggae scenes tended to grow in places where large numbers of Jamaicans settled, as you might expect. Birmingham's...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: May/2016
A Cassowary Apart
Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers
The world of ambient banjo is a small one. This was the joke that brought together two participants in the...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2021
Mes Racines
The son of Slah Mosbah, a celebrated singer among Tunisia's marginalised black community from the southern desert lands on the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2018
Anadolu Ejderi
Whereas earlier albums had more to do with retro-futurism, on Anadolu Ejderi (Anatolian Dragons) past and present collide beguilingly as...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: January/February/2023
11th Street, Sekondi
It is refreshing to know that the career of highlife singer and multi-instrumentalist Gyedu-Blay Ambolley appears to be on a...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020
Bolinus Brandaris: Flamenco from the Bay of Cadiz
If you like your flamenco raw and unadulterated, without the studio frippery of added effects and multi-tracking that makes so...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2023
22 Strings
After his sublime album, Clychau Dibon, with Welsh harpist Catrin Finch that won Best Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the 2014 Songlines...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2015
