Reviews
Estar Ahí
With or without his band La Chicana, Acho Estol’s music always has something of a tea-concert quality. An airy lightness...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2022
Flor di Bila
Cape Verdean musicians tend to go down one of two paths: one of interpretation, set on preserving musical forms from...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2014
When the Roses Come Again
With When the Roses Come Again, finger-style guitarist extraordinaire Daniel Bachman has officially ventured beyond the local solar system and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2024
One Race (Tribute to Hilaire Penda)
Congolese guitarist Kiala Nzavotunga began his career playing in Le Grand Kalle’s Africa Jazz band, but he became tired of...
Reviewed by Łukasz Komła in issue: February/March/2026
No Stranger Here
Shubha Mudgal, Ursula Rucker & the Business Class Refugees
Initially I found the very idea of this album a little off-putting. A selection of 16th century Indian poems by...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Apr/May/2012
Phantom Songs
Ten albums and over 1,500 gigs later, the Berliners are still all over the map. When the Iron Curtain was...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011
Capacity to Love
What do you do when you’ve performed from atop the Eiffel Tower, sold out such prestigious venues as the Barbican...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2022
Sahel Folk
Sidi Touré’s first album, Hoga, appeared 14 years ago on Stern’s and it is an indication of how the global...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2011
Albion Voice
She's a one-woman show wrapped in the colours of leftfield folk pop, Indian strings, art ensemble music and a broad...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
Tambacounda Express
The Lovin’ Spoonful's John Sebastian once sang that ‘there's 1,352 guitar pickers in Nashville’; there are surely at least as...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2016
