Reviews
A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey
A former touring member of award-winning African-American string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, cellist Leyla McCalla made her solo debut with...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2016
A Collection
The Be Good Tayas, a female trio from Vancpouver, have bee makig their very seductive music since 1999. Theyhave released...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2013
An Introduction to Shirley Collins
You could say Shirley Collins needs little introduction and, certainly within the folk world, that is true. But this serves...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2017
Dimbambe: Identité
Affable yet determined, velvet-smooth yet troubled. Such colourful, perhaps contradictory epithets could describe the Cameroonian Mario Combo and his fourth...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Noites Brasileiras
These are admittedly troubling times for Brazil. Having elected a president known for his polemic and hostile quotes on minorities...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2019
Imaginarium
As the daughter of one of the Assad Brothers, a world-beating Brazilian classical guitar duo, it's perhaps no surprise that...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Yemamaya
With Yemamaya, Portugal-based Brazilian singer-songwriter LUIZGA collaborates across a full-length set with French producer iZem, pulling together tracks from an...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: December/2025
Roforofo Fight
Following Fela Kuti’s trip to the US in 1969, he returned to Nigeria with a revolutionary mission, changed the name of his...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022
While You Were Slumbering
Expert fiddler and banjoist and scholar of southern Appalachian music, Tennessee native Joseph Decosimo bears the legacy of the Cumberland...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2023
