Reviews
Dos Medinas Blancas
The two white medinas of this album's title are Zaragoza and Fes, the home towns of established singer-songwriter Carmen Paris...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: April/2018
A Parulluccia
Alba emerged from the rebirth of Corsican music at the end of the 20th century, honouring the distinctive polyphony of...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: June/2018
If He Dies, If If If If If If
Not so much a group as a multi-media project, Jerusalem in My Heart consist of Lebanon-born Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2016
All in Always
Most records represent a step forward, or sideways, away from their predecessors. With All in Always, Laura Cortese has made...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2017
Feyzullah Çinar Eserleri 1
If there’s any Turkish record label going to pay tribute to the Alevi-Bektaşi minstrel Feyzullah Çinar then it’s got to...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/2024
Radio Lusaka
Alick Nkhata was a World War Two veteran, a freedom fighter against colonialism, a singer-musician who led the Lusaka Radio...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2025
They Found Asylum in the Sea
The seven-piece UK Afrobeat collective Sea Slugs have self-released three albums in four years since they formed in 2013. The...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2017
The Kankobela of the Batonga Volume 2
The kankobela is a smaller version of the more well-known mbira (thumb piano) of Zimbabwe’s Shona people. The people of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012
Fazendo as Pazes com o Swing
Before rock'n'roll there was swing – with big bands fronted by musicians like Benny Goodman introducing African-American syncopation and jazz...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Apr/May/2014
