Reviews
Hymns of Bantu
Anything Abel Selaocoe touches is bound to be extraordinary. Having followed his career from its early days, it’s been a...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: April/2025
Simple Pleasures
Pioneering banjo player, composer and a key leading lady of bluegrass, Alison Brown wears many hats of leadership. She grew...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: November/2024
A Thousand Pokes
‘Pokes’ were typos to 14th-century scribes, and it's the rough music of a mistaken world, poked through with holes, that's...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2024
Cuckoo
Toronto-based Lemon Bucket Orchestra are Canada's version of Gogol Bordello and, like Eugene Hütz, it seems a good many of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2024
Start Close In
You would expect from The Rheingans Sisters, Rowan and Anna, the assertion of female autonomy, and ‘Devils’, their take on...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2024
Mmabatho
Singer, songwriter and producer Tomeletso Sereetsi is something of a hero in his homeland as an exponent of the unique...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2025
Manos Panamericanos
The story of this unlikely duo, Larry & Joe, is a powerful indictment of US immigration. A renowned musician and...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: January/2025
A Ukrainian Wedding
Cappella Romana & Nadia Tarnawski
The order of a modern wedding has become standardised across the world: an engagement followed by a wedding ceremony with...
Reviewed by Yurii Bereza in issue: January/2025
Giorgos Katsaros
This is both a fabulous historical document and a musical treat from the rebetika heyday of Greek émigrés to the...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: January/2025
