Reviews
Amazonia
Finis Africae is essentially the Spanish multi-instrumentalist Juan A Arteche, flanked by a small team of distinctive collaborators. This reissued...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2016
Ferrari Safari
Best known to us for his series of field recordings of African traditional music and for reissuing the 22-CD Historical...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2020
History of Rock Music in Ukrainian
The Ukrainians date back to 1990, when guitarist Peter Solowka from the band The Wedding Present teamed up with singer...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Egoli
All aboard Damon Albarn's exhilarating Africa Express again, this time bound for Johannesburg. Albarn travelled to South Africa last year...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Babani Koné
I'm always wary when I read that an artist wants to ‘broaden their audience’ and make an ‘international’ album –...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2020
Once We Had a Home
The Rohingya people are among the most persecuted on the planet. In 1982, they were driven from their ancestral homes...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: July/2024
Empire & Love
The Imagined Village began not so much as a band but a concept – melding multi-cultural Britain with its folk...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2010
Trinidad-Calypso 1939-59
This double CD meanders across 20 years of Trinidad and Tobago musical history offering a warm, humorous chronicle of a...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: March/2012
Silt
While US-based Sudanese singer Alsarah appeared on our radar last year with her work as part of the Nile Project,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: July/2014
