Reviews
This House Will Stand
For this Best Of set, Oysterband have compiled a disc of choice cuts from across their late-90s and post-2000s career,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2016
Zomba Prison Project: I Have No Everything Here
In 2013, producer Ian Brennan clandestinely documented the music found inside Zomba's maximum security institution in Malawi. Some of the...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2015
Door to the Cosmos
When Sun Ra dared to knock on the door of the cosmos in 1979 whoever let him in didn’t close...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: November/2020
Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974-1979
Burkina Faso has been somewhat passed over as a musical centre when compared to its West African neigh¬bours; this latest...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Nação Zumbi
It's close to 20 years since Nação Zumbi's original singer Chico Science died in a car accident, an event that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2016
Amidst Fiery Skies
This is the second album from the Cambridge-based five-piece who blend Americana with English folk music. Here on Amidst Fiery...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2015
Heavy Wood
Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra
Djukella is an insult, common in the Balkans, meaning mongrel. Hellard and his band have reclaimed it aptly: their music...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2016
Kodu
Leana & Hartwin are a folk duo based on Saaremaa, an Estonian island in the Baltic Sea.Leana Vapper-Dhoore was born...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: November/2019
Howl
Howl means ‘Sun’ in Cornish, and this is the Kernow singer and artist’s second album, following on from 2022’s Donsya...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2024
Heavier Yet (Lays the Crownless Head)
Becoming leader of Egypt 80, his legendary father Fela’s band, at the tender age of 14, Seun Kuti has always...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: November/2024
