Reviews
Braquage de Pouvoir
A quarter of a century on since he emerged from Ivory Coast with his spectacular international debut Mangercratie, Tiken Jan...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023
Grad Gori!
For some years singer Brina Vogelnik has headed one of Slovenia's most popular neo-folk bands, Brina, mixing folklore with a...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2019
3NE
Niqolah Seeva seeks to push established boundaries and challenge our preconceptions; his first album presents itself as the clarion call...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: November/2020
Do Coração
Last year, we praised Sara Correia’s first adult album (she had released a previous one in her adolescence) as a...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2020
Sultan
Alune Wade | Alune Wade & Harold López-Nussa
Since beginning his career in Ismaël Lô’s band more than 20 years ago, the Dakar-born, Paris-based singer and bassist Alune...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2022
Tomorrow Will Follow Today
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
A young man refuses to sleep with his uncle's wife. She stabs herself and blames the boy. His uncle has...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2015
I’ll Find a Way
As with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, recording the Blind Boys of Alabama has its challenges. The two gospel vocal groups from...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2014
Interesting Times
‘There is no escaping it. We live in the sort of times that will be referred to by historians as...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2017
Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail
As a member of the progressive bluegrass band the Punch Brothers, banjo player Noam Pikelny has made a name for...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
