Reviews
Dabke: Sounds of the Syrian Houran
One suspects there isn’t a lot of dancing going on in Syria just now. But anyone who, in happier times,...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2013
Greater Jamaica
Producer Duke Reid's compilation advertises ‘Reggay at its best’ – that's reggae circa 1969, as connoisseurs will note from the...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
La Part du Hasard
Twenty-three years, 12 albums, one theme: Xavier Demerliac's oeuvre is as steadfast as a train steaming down the track. Each...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2018
Astro-Hungarian Jewish Music
Frank London Glass House Orchestra
The Glass House Orchestra takes its name from the Üvegház (Glass House), a building used by the Swiss diplomat Carl...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2017
A Thousand Hearts
Five year's after Cara Dillon's last studio album, 2009's Hill of Thieves, comes A Thousand Hearts, a brittle and beautiful...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Harmonograph
A big welcome back to Sam Carter and Jim Moray, whose debut album under the guise of False Lights, Salvor,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2018
An Dà Là – The Two Days
After three years of near-constant touring, this six-piece band’s third album finds Ewen Henderson taking over lead vocals from now-departed...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2017
Radio Vietnam
Belonging to Sublime Frequencies’ locale-specific radio collage series, Radio Vietnam is a ‘plunderphonics’ album: that's to say, the mashed-up audio...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: July/2015
Mopepe Mama
Syssi Mananga is a Brussels-based singer-songwriter of Afro-pop leanings and Belgian and Congolese heritage whose debut, Retour aux Sources(Back to...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2021
