Reviews
Al Qantara: The Bridge
Southern Morocco has become a hot-house of cultural fusion, partly due to the number of foreign musicians playing and working...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2014
The Voice of Lightness Vol 2: Congo Classics 1977-1993
The second two-disc volume of the definitive career overview of Tabu Ley Rochereau picks up the Congo’s greatest vocalist at...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2011
Con-Fusion
This steel pan drummer from Trinidad was one of the founding members of cult the outfits 20th Century Steel Band...
Reviewed by John M Gomez in issue: June/2013
Rocket Juice & The Moon
It's hard to underestimate the impact Damon Albarn has had on traditional concepts of what constitutes ‘world music’, via such...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2012
Swaziland: Songs of the Swazi
Despite the 82–year reign of Sobhuza II – the “hip king’’ eulogised by South African jazzer Abdullah Ibrahim – Swaziland...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Starlight Hotel
Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers
Zoe Muth has been called Seattle's answer to Emmylou Harris, Kitty Wells or Iris Dement, depending on who you believe....
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2011
Schodsbergs Notebok
Jorun Marie Kvernberg & Øyvind Sandum | Sandén-Warg, Berglund, Rydberg, Lund, Gorset & Claeson
The Nordic countries have been assiduous in collecting and codifying their folk music, and these two recordings show two different...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Mountains of the Moon
Ganda Boys are two Ugandans and an American based in the UK. This is the group's third album and –...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2015
