Reviews
Spirit Bird
He may have been around for a decade, but there is still a youthful urgency to Rudd’s music. He mixes...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2012
Keme Borama
This is the first internationally released recording from griot guitarist Tiecoro Sissoko and sadly it is a posthumous debut, Sissoko...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2014
Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
When Jeremy Dutcher received the Polaris Prize (the Canadian equivalent of the Mercury Prize) for this album in September, he...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Oud Classics from Armenia, the Balkans & Middle East
If you are someone who is slightly unsure about Middle Eastern music but would like to dip your toe into...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: May/2020
So Much to Defend
As a certain Nobel Prize-winning songwriter once wrote, ‘people are crazy, times are strange’ and that has rarely been so...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2017
O Ku Ngwo Di Ochi
Oriental Brothers International Band
Fifty years ago the Oriental Brothers were a kind of Nigerian boy band. Hailing from the Igbo-dominated eastern region of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022
Oberlin 1968
It’s the 1960s. They wear swinging, Carnaby Street clobber. Their performances are famously forthright and intense, yet funny and entertaining....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
The Fragile
O’Hooley & Tidow were mightily impress¬ive at the Nowt So Queer as Folk concert at Cecil Sharp House, the home...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012
I Used to Be Sad & Then I Forgot
Professional photographer-turned-singer-songwriter Mr Alec Bowman may have swapped the darkroom for the recording studio but it still doesn't seem to...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: July/2020
