Reviews

Habibi: Algérie de ma Jeunesse

VARIOUS ARTISTS

What a charming CD this is, evoking an alluring world of white linen jackets, pencil moustaches, fez hats and nightclubs...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Rewilding

Richard Durrant

Listening to the third solo album from composer and guitarist Richard Durrant invites in a gentle English pastoral scene. Tours...

Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: January/2021

Makes a King

The Very Best

The Very Best are a duo, Johan Hugo and Esau Mwamwaya, who met in London's Hackney. They won a good...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2015

Decade

Fidil

This new effort from the Irish string trio sees them return with an impressive display of fiddle music based around...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2020

Soô

Habib Koité

Perhaps it was recording 2012’s Brothers in Bamako with the American bluesman Eric Bibb that persuaded Habib Koité it was...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2014

El Changüí Majadero

Changüí Majadero

Changüí music hails from the recently hurricane-ravaged area of Baracoa in Cuba's easterly Guantanamo province: it is a graceful, Caribbean-soaked...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Heritage

Tunde Jegede

Born in London to a Nigerian father and an Irish mother, Jegede has a rich musical history. As a child...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2014

Rescued Treasure

Semer Ensemble

This is rescued treasure indeed. The Semer Ensemble bring back to life the previously lost recordings of Hirsch Lewin's Semer...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2016

Ahlam

NES

NES are an intriguing trio. Formed in Valencia, Spain, they are fronted by a remarkable and versatile singer, Nesrine Belmokh....

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: November/2018

Viene de Mi

La Yegros

If you thought Argentinian music was all just about tango, then how very wrong you were. Cumbia, Latin America's dance...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Aug/Sept/2013