Reviews
Dendere Ngoma (Music Nest)
Spirit Talk Mbira feat. Chartwell Dutiro
A promoter in Holland had booked [Spirit Talk Mbira] thinking that the band was full of African people ‘ recalls...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Le Chat Brel
French violinist Gabriel Bismut met Italian accordion player Maurizio Minardi while playing jazz in Paris four years ago. They discovered...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2020
Spinning Yarns
She's had seven years as the lead singer and flautist with Cape Breton traditional group The Outside Track, and a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
So Much to Defend
As a certain Nobel Prize-winning songwriter once wrote, ‘people are crazy, times are strange’ and that has rarely been so...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2017
Lysbærer
Lysbærer could easily be the soundtrack to any of the popular Viking series available on our screens and it’s the...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: May/2022
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
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
Todo el Mundo
Texas-based Colombian musician and lately also stand-up comedian Kiko Villamizar has released his new album Todo el Mundo following the...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: April/2022
C'est Le Pompon
This new acoustic dance band announce their intention not just in the title of their first CD – C'est Le...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2018
Kobani
Ferhat Tunç's latest album is nicely packaged, with the songs competently translated into English. If you are unfamiliar with the...
Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: October/2016
