Reviews

FA-5

FA-5

The latest Cuban Classic is a strange affair: the disco-funk outfit manage to sound oddly reminiscent of 80s UK jazz-funk...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2024

Jumbie in the Jukebox

Kobo Town

‘I would choose to live back when calypso brought the news’, sings Drew Gonsalves in the opening seconds of Jumbie...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2013

Desde el Infierno

Héctor Guerra

Héctor Guerra sprung to prominence as a member of Pachamama Crew, a hip-hop group from Madrid who railed against the...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2018

Beyond

Talisk

Fresh from a well-deserved win of the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards' Musician of the Year award for concertina...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2018

Guitarra 66

To Trips

Best known for his work with Dead Combo, To Trips decided to go temporarily solo and record Guitarra 66. Dead...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Apr/May/2010

Ngiya Awungarra – I Am Here, Now

Ngarukuruwala

The indigenous culture of the two main Tiwi Islands – Melville and Bathurst, some 80km north of Darwin – has...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: May/2017

Quilombo

Osvaldo Hernandéz-Napoles

Osvaldo Hernandéz-Napoles is a Mexican singer-songwriter and percussionist who has been based in Brussels for the last 24 years. Quilombo...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2014

Coracle

Emily Portman

Alongside Sam Lee and Alasdair Roberts, Emily Portman is one of the great interpreters of traditional ballads from the magical...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2015

Men Lŏnu

Duo Landry+

Duo Landry+ formed in 2016 after an encounter at the Institut Français de Cotonou. Together, clarinettist, flautist and saxophonist Landry...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: July/2024

Amall

Rabbath Electric Orchestra

Six years in the making, Amall marks the debut of the Rabbath Electric Orchestra, a transgenerational collaboration between the legendary...

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: September/2025