Reviews
Maguidala
After the success of their compilation Léve Léve: Sao Tomé & Príncipe Sounds 70s-80s earlier in the year, Bongo Joe...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2020
Son Verdad
Xiomara Fortuna – attributed with founding the feminist movement in the Dominican Republic, an ‘out’ lesbian and a defender of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: May/2019
Blue Fields
Sister vocalists Marjan and Mahsa Vahdat have made a name for themselves in recent years with a number of joint...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: October/2014
Underwater Dub
Listening to this album I immediately asked myself a question: who in the world needs another dub album in 2014?...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2014
Odyssey
Fourth Moon was formed out of a session at Ireland’s Willie Clancy Festival in 2014 by four musicians from right...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2022
Fabian Holland
The real challenge of folk music in a post-industrial society is how to make it relevant. Fabian Holland is a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Bamako Sessions
Invisible System, aka producer and multi-instrumentalist Dan Harper, is best known for his heavy dub-rock takes on Ethiopian music, drafting...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2018
The Rough Guide to Country Blues
Give this album the roughly five minutes it takes to run down the first two tracks – the deeply harrowing...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2019
Fleuves de l’Âme
This debut album from Tunisian percussionist Houeida Hedfi translates from the French as ‘Rivers of the Soul’, and it’s a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: January/February/2022
