Reviews
African Soul Revolutionary
Every slick studio release Baaba Maal puts on the market tends to prompt someone to release some unmixed, live or...
Reviewed by Katharina Lobeck Kane in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Zonnewachter
The second album from Wouter en de Draak (Wouter and the Dragon) is a timely reminder of the beauty of...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: October/2021
Funky Highlife
A 1975 release on the Essiebons label from Ghana, this is an album of occasionally funky but mostly sweet highlife,...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Like a Bolt
Released in 1973, Like a Bolt gathered recordings the great Jamaican singer John Holt had made for Duke Reid's Treasure...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2019
Vive I’Amour
Too bad if you weren’t there to witness these talented Cajun ladies performing at the funky and friendly Blue Moon...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Vol 1
Take a cursory glance at Complete Recorded Works and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was the latest release from...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
The Rough Guide to Irish Music
Recession and emigration has taken its toll in recent years on Ireland’s traditional music scene, with pub closures, rising alcohol...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2013
A New Tango Songbook
Ostensibly, this is an unlikely combination. In the red corner: Christoph Müller from Switzerland and Eduardo Makaroff of Argentina, two...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2015
Kongo
Since 1991 this group from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo has been developing its folkloric drum and dance act...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2018
