Reviews
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Pioneer Works Swing (Live)
Hailu Mergia | Hailu Mergia & The Walias
Not only did the Éthiopiques series make available a treasure of little known music from the golden age of Ethiopian...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2023
Sun to Sun
Sun to Sun came together when Alice Gerrard and Tatiana Hargreaves were huddled in place during the COVID-19 pandemic reviewing...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2023
Upopo Sanke
This posthumous release was recorded in 2003, on a farm in the Tokachi district of Hokkaido, the northernmost island of...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: November/2023
La Giusta Distanza
Riccardo Tesi | Riccardo Tesi & Banditaliana
La Giusta Distanza grew out of the confinement of the pandemic when Tuscan organetto (diatonic accordion) maestro Tesi composed most...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: December/2023
A Collection of Songs in the Traditional & Sean-Nós Style
Drawn from several generations of unaccompanied traditional singers, these are freshly recorded and collected, aside from Rosie Stewart’s ‘Jug of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2023
To Those Who Came Before Us
In recent years, this prolific Egyptian/Australian oud player and composer has received well-deserved acclaim for his instrumental virtuosity, as well...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: November/2023
Drum Money
Leke Awoyinka, otherwise known as Ekiti Sound, is a singer-songwriter and producer who has moved between Lagos and the UK,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: November/2023
Dengue Fever
Dengue Fever’s sixth full-length album is their first for eight years and marks the 20th anniversary of the Cambodian-US band’s...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: November/2023
Addis
Born in Addis Ababa in 1970 and growing up in Sweden, Lemma has been making music since his teens but...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2024
Jopango
If Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno’s KWEChE was something of a disappointment in 2021, Jopango proves much more coherent and satisfying. To...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: January/February/2024
