Reviews
An Bhuatais & the Meaning of Life
Lorcán MacMathúna's book-and-CD package, An Bhuatais & the Meaning of Life, is, as its title implies, ambitious – an attempt...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2021
Young, Gifted and Yellow
This new anthology of albino dancehall star Yellowman flaunts his laugh-out-loud sexual swagger over two CDs. His massive hit ‘Zungguzungguguzungguzeng’...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
No Reino Dos Afetos
Bruno Berle hails from Maceió, Alagoas, a state on the east coast of Brazil that boasts a tight-knit musical community....
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: August/September/2022
Sam Amidon
Sam Amidon, the radical recombinator of traditional folk music, has concocted a delightfully diabolical set of experiments, unleashing a Frankenstein’s...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2020
Sharpener
The Hackney Colliery Band have achieved greater popularity than any other contemporary British brass band through regular performances and savvy...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2016
Hikoi/Journey
Richard Nunns, Paul Dyne & Dave Lisik
If 68-year-old Kiwi ethnomusicologist Richard Nunns isn’t careful, he’ll end up appearing on every album made in New Zealand! The...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2013
Rişar & Kupa 4
These songs stem from a perilous time in Turkish history when ethnic strife between Turks, Greeks and Armenians was beginning...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: April/2022
Give
The New York-based trio are at it again. But this time things are different – the band have grown up...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: Apr/May/2012
Secretly Famous
This is a Western¬er’s image of Cairo and its mythical fleshpots: snake-charmer music for young Euro-clubbers en route to the...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: July/2010
