Reviews
Rima
Ever since the arrival of her genre-bending 90s band The Moahunters, veteran Maori songstress Moana Maniapoto has been one of...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Casa de Trova: Cuba 50s
A decade or so ago, this album would have been one among dozens. With the decline of the CD trade,...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2014
The Falcon Flies from Rudnik Mountain
Olga Krasojevic & Svetlana Spajic Group
Olga Krasojević, rapidly approaching the age of 80 with few signs of wear, is from the central Serbian village of...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2016
With Love
Egyptian-born Omar Khorshid was one of the finest guitarists in the Arab world, accompanying the likes of Oum Kalthoum at...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2021
Le Bal de l’Afrique Enchantée
All the ingredients are there to make this album a joyous romp through African classics that have shaped generations of...
Reviewed by Anne-Cécile Lafarge in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Vangasay
A vangasay is a Type of mandarin orange from Madagascar and Vietnam, popular in the islands across the Indian Ocean...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2020
Looking for a Fight
The Sweetback Sisters are harkening back to the earliest decades of the American recording and radio casting industry when ‘sister’...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2012
From Bedlam to Lenane
Ilaria Graziano & Francesco Forni
With that title beside those two names, I was expecting a couple of Italian crooners on an Irish road trip....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2015
Behind the Glass
Followers of British folk may know The Fair Rain as The Old Dance School. The septet led by singer-songwriter Robin...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: May/2016
Kagabas
Just when you weren’t waiting for a steaming chiva bus up to the mountains of the Colombian coast, along come...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2021
