Reviews
Pancada Motor: Manifesto da Festa
DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar
One of Alfredo Bello's passions is to create field recordings of Afro-Brazilian traditions and religious ceremonies. These recordings then serve...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2015
Alchemy
Having first discovered medieval and Renaissance melodies at the age of four through her recorder playing, then taken up the...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2017
Maputo Queens
This is the debut solo album from composer, arranger and producer Etienne de la Sayette. The Parisian is primarily known...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: October/2016
Ave Africa
The 1970s were the time for dance bands in East Africa, but Sunburst certainly weren’t ten-a-penny. They gained a reputation...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2016
Tawassol
Gabacho Maroc are a Moroccan-French fusion band who merge Moroccan Gnawa styles with funk-jazz. The ensemble consists of Hamid Moumen...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2018
like the sky I’ve been too quiet
Born in New York and raised in Tamil Nadu, ganavya has gradually cultivated a glowing reputation as an interdisciplinary artist,...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2024
Cosmic Griots
Consistently funky and smile-inducing multi-diasporic Polish band The Afronauts channel the classic Afrobeat sound of Fela Kuti, the Ghanaian highlife...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: July/2025
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Friends: The Black Ark Years
When Trojan Records became part of the giant Universal Music, reggae collectors might well have feared that the previous stream...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Herencia de la Tierra Mía
The mariachi spectacle – much like the burrito and margarita – is all too easy to bastardise. Wandering spangle-suited musicians...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2018
Seasons of India
The premise of this disc is a journey by raga through a year of seasons, from monsoon to summer. This...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: May/2020
