Reviews
Sababu
Five years ago, the Burkina Faso-born kamelengoni master Aboubakar Traoré and his group Balima released a splendid debut album titled...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2025
Simply Amjad Ali Khan Vols 1-3
These three albums are by one of India's finest classical instrumentalists playing one of the most distinguished instruments, the sarod....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2021
Terraforming in Analogue Space: IRL Remixes 2000-2015
This double album compilation curated by Nick ‘Dubulah’ Page celebrates the 100th release of IRL Records. It is a masterclass...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: April/2017
Path of Seven Colors
Listening to this groundbreaking album on the day the news reveals that Haiti’s president has been assassinated by a group...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2021
Reggae Mandela
In the 1980s, reggae singers began issuing songs either damning South Africa's apartheid government or praising the then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2019
Little Bird
More incisive, searing social and political commentary revealing how folk music can speak as much for our times as it...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2020
Le Ballet National de Guinée Conakry invite Bertrand Renaudin
Le Ballet National de Guinée Conakry
Guinea’s Ballet National ensemble has existed since independence was won in 1958 and proudly stands as a symbol of Mande...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2010
Songs Inspired by the Film The Beatles and India
Here are two discs to accompany the new documentary film on the highly influential period when The Beatles visited India...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2021
