Reviews
Tiritando
Antonio Gonzalez Batista helped pioneer the fusion of flamenco and Latin rumba rhythms that has had such an enduring impact...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2012
Ink of the Rosy Morning
Like a number of albums released this year, the root story behind the Cambridge duo’s debut for Topic Records is...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2022
Escape That
This is Sweeney's first album of self-composed songs, its 11 tracks comprised of more than 20 pieces, written during lockdown...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2022
Set Sela
In a part of the world where a music scene is starting to make itself heard, Senegal's Guiss Guiss Bou...
Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: April/2020
Crows’ Bones
Opera North, who originally commissioned this project as a live, touring event, clearly have a refreshingly broad idea of what...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2014
Electricity
Four albums in, and Ibibio Sound Machine are showing no signs of slowing down. Bursting with purpose, Electricity offers hope...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: May/2022
Llaneros Songs of Casanare
‘Good evening compadre. We've been waiting for you..!’ That's the welcome given by the musicians at the start of the...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2012
Havana Night Sessions at Abdala Studios
Of all the mash-ups in all the world, this Romani-Cuban musical summit had to happen one day. And it was...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2017
Dilyn Afon
Cynefin is the recording name of West Wales trip-hop-and-jazz-player-turned-folk-musician Owen Shiers. The title translates as ‘Following a River’ and takes...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2020
Soutak
Aziza Brahim was born in the refugee camps of Algeria, an exile from her homeland in what the Saharawis call...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2014
