Reviews
Tanou
There are few more ancient instruments than Mali’s six-stringed, individually bowed n’dan, or ‘traveller’s harp’. Fewer still whose existence is...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2024
Ethiopiques 31
One assumed that the Ethiopiques catalogue had run its course, as it’s now almost a decade since the last volume...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2026
Jump the Fire
California-based vocalist and clawhammer banjo player Evie Ladin shut herself away in a damp, dark cabin to compose the songs...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Love Party
I have a confession: before listening to this I had never heard an Azerbaijani-Finnish ensemble performing club music. In my...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: August/2017
Orchestrations
Buttery has pursued a more eclectic approach to incorporating global styles into his guitar playing than his fellow South African...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2025
Stemmer i Voks
Stemmer i Voks, from Danish folktronica pioneers Ulla Bendixen and Martin Ottosen, core members of seminal band Sorten Muld, is...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: September/2025
The Rough Guide to Barbecue Bob
Proving that rappers and hip-hop artists weren’t the first African-American musicians to adopt street names was Robert Hicks: he cooked,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Traces of You
This album is certainly Anoushka’s most personal to date, as most of the tracks are inspired by, or in memory...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
O Ptácích a Rybách
BraAgas are a Czech female quartet (plus bassist Jan Hrbek) who featured on the bonus CD of Czech music with...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Kanabory Siyama
When the great kora (harp-lute) player Kaouding Cissoko died in 2003, he was replaced in Baaba Maal's band by Diabel,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2012
