Reviews
Nuba Nova
Hamdi Benani, Mehdi Haddab & Speed Caravan
Mehdi Haddab’s rai-punk outfit Speed Caravan have somewhat escaped my attention since their brilliant 2008 debut Kalashnik Love, but this...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
The Rough Guide to Country Blues
Give this album the roughly five minutes it takes to run down the first two tracks – the deeply harrowing...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2019
Basant
Johnny Kalsi has been running the Dhol Foundation now for more than 25 years, while also banging his double-sided Punjabi...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2017
Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects of the Caucasus
The Caucasus mountains on the borders of Europe and Asia are a dramatic mosaic of landscapes and cultures. Alongside the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
New Orleans Funk Vol 4
Soul Jazz Records does a remarkable job in its reissues of Caribbean music and the New Orleans Funk series always...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2017
Balance l’Aurore
Garance Louis & the Mitochondries
The genres dipped into are familiar, but it's the idiosyncrasies that this French singer, composer and accordionist brings to her...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: July/2018
Bellows and Pipes
Markku Lepistö & Mikko Helenius
The sound and grandeur of a vast cathedral, and the intimacy of chamber music: the combination of church organ and...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2019
Young Waters
Young Waters are led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Theo Passington with a trio of string players – violin, viola...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2018
