Reviews
The Secret
In the past, some of Vieux Farka Touré's guitar playing has steered perilously close to the self-indulgent and generic, particularly...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2011
Traders
The common thread in this improbable but delightful fusion of the traditional music of Scotland and West Africa is created...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
DanSando
For her sixth album, Portuguese singer-songwriter Luísa Sobral wanted to release ‘an ode to life’ – a drop of medicine...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2022
Voyageur
Ali Farka Touré | Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté
A new album of nine unheard studio cuts from the Malian legend comes 17 years after his death, but slip...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2023
Homeland (Chapter 1)
With his latest album, it is nice to see that kora player Seckou Keita continues to push boundaries. For Homeland...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: January/2025
The Definitive Collection
Sometime in the late 1980s I made a radio feature saluting the emergence of ‘New Wave English Country Dance Music.’...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Que Beleza
Another summer, another Ipanemas album, and if the British weather stays anything like as sweet as Que Beleza sounds, a...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Em Africa ao Vivo
Despite a career stretching back to the mid-80s, this is among the first of singer-songwriter and percussionist Mart’na’lia’s albums to...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
The Karindula Sessions: Tradi-Modern Sounds From Southeast Congo
A giant banjo, made out of an oil barrel, a goat skin, four strings and an empty bag of powdered...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2011
