Reviews
Sonbonbela
Baba Commandant & the Mandingo Band
According to a somewhat over-excited press release, the third album by Burkina Faso's Baba Commandant & the Mandingo Band is...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2022
Sheema
A veteran of Transglobal Underground and Imagined Village, the British sitar player Mukherjee has released her first solo album in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Acoustic Classics II
In a double-album format, Richard Thompson is intending to release a companion piece to this album titled Acoustic Rarities, which...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: October/2017
Homenagem
Samba from Berlin? Why not? There has been plenty of choro coming from unexpected places recently, but not so much...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2022
Sikoses
The Nicosia-based trio Monsieur Doumani have returned with a truly sterling effort on their second album. It features reworkings of...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: June/2015
The Griot's Craft
The previous solo album from the Bembeya Jazz/Africando singer and voice of Guinea to receive an international release was Sinikan,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2013
Kurdish Alevi Laments
This is a tough listen, like eavesdropping on private, tragic moments in the life of a family. It's made even...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinell in issue: Apr/May/2012
Maguidala
After the success of their compilation Léve Léve: Sao Tomé & Príncipe Sounds 70s-80s earlier in the year, Bongo Joe...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2020
Jamaica is the Place to Go
This two-CD set follows 2013's Mento, Not Calypso! by further exploring the 1950s mento scene. Often overshadowed by Trinidad's golden...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: October/2015
Haiti Vodou: 1937-1962 Folk Trance Possession
Following Frémeaux's 2013 two-CD compilation Jamaica Folk Trance Possession, comes this set of mostly field recordings from Haiti. But where...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: June/2016
