Reviews
The Queen of Hearts
Offa Rex comprise English singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney and US indie rockers The Decemberists; Queen of Hearts is the result of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2017
Blow the Wind Southerly
The classically-trained UK-based singer, guitarist, composer and producer Esbe is nothing if not prolific – Blow the Wind Southerly is...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2023
Nova
For his first solo album in nine years Apneseth, one of Norway’s most thrilling Hardanger fiddle players, chose to record...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2022
Ayú
Making music with their bodies is ‘what really matters,’ assert this mixed-gender 15-strong collective from São Paulo. While there are...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Empire Electric
The new album, Empire Electric, from No-No Boy, the alter ego of rogue folklorist Julian Saporiti, dives into Southeast Asian...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: November/2023
Jah Shaka Presents the Positive Message
The legendary and mysterious Jah Shaka has been the UK’s leading roots and culture sound-system operator since the early 70s,...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Chants Mystiques d’Algérie
Four years on from Renyate, her tribute to great, if sometimes marginal, Algerian female singers such as Meriem Fekkai, Fadela...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: April/2018
Tribute to Juan Carlos Cáceres
Le Collectif Tango Negro Ensemble
Le Collectif Tango Negro Ensemble is a project led by the double-bassist Carlos Buschini, here playing acoustic bass, that recreates...
Reviewed by Gabriel Cócaro in issue: December/2025
La Locura de Machuca 1975-1980
Discos Machuca was a seminal Afro-cumbia label in late 70s Colombia. Founded by a tax lawyer who reinvented himself as...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2020
Gnawa Soul
The Gnawa, Morocco’s musical brotherhoods, were placed on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list in 2019. This is a...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2022
