Reviews
Illusion & Doubt
Like a backfiring, smoke-belching, fluid-dripping jalopy from a bygone era, The Dead South pop, chuff and wheeze their way across...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2018
Salone
The Kondi Band teams the blind Sierra Leonean thumb piano player and vocalist Sorie Kondi with the US producer and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2017
Bwati Kono Vol 1
The death of Lobi Traoré in 2010 at the age of 49 deprived the Malian music scene of a blues...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2013
Kora Fo
Born into a legendary griot family in Casamance, Senegal, for the past decade Maher Cissoko has been resident in Sweden,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2017
Back to Sustain
Like a light hike on an easy trail on a sunny spring afternoon, The Pine Hearts' fourth studio album doesn't...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020
Force of the Wind
SOYUZ, which translates as ‘Union’ is a creative collective from Belarus, and this third album is definitely true to the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2022
Sousamaphone
The rising popularity of American brass bands – Hot 8 Brass Band and Dirty Dozen Brass Band from New Orleans...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
The Youth That Belonged to Miltown
Marian Curtin & Therese McInerney
Nestled on the rugged Atlantic coastline of County Clare, Miltown Malbay has produced poets, politicians (an Irish president among them)...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2022
