Reviews
…e l’italiano ride
Singer-songwriter Mirco Menna here encounters a 52-piece Sicilian brass band, directed by Sebastiano Bell’Arte. It's the pair's second recording, following...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: October/2010
Crocodile Blues
Songhai Blues, Samba Touré's debut album of two years ago, was sub-titled ‘Homage To Ali Farka Touré’; the late guitarist...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Time of the Skeleton Lords
The monastery of Tashi Lhunpo, seat of the Panchen Lama (second only to the Dalai Lama), is probably the most...
Reviewed by Mark Trewin in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Take Yo Time
Take Yo Time is the first duo album from Ben Hunter (fiddle, vocals) and Joe Seamons (banjo, guitar, vocals) produced...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2015
El Aaiún Egdat
It is only appropriate to explain that I first heard Mariem Hassan’s declamatory voice opening her new album on a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Marchez Noir
Amazigh Kateb, who was the lead singer of Gnawa Diffusion, has turned down the rock from his old group and...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: March/2010
From Africa With Fury: Rise
Last year, Femi Kuti made the finest album of his career with Africa For Africa [reviewed in #73], a back-to-basics...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2011
Ninguém Vai Me Segurar
Cut down by terminal illness in the prime of her life, Brazilian singer-singwriter Ana Mazzotti – like her contemporary Rosinha...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: November/2019
Afrique Victime
The last album by Mdou Moctar, often dubbed ‘the Hendrix of the Sahara,’ was a devastatingly deadly assault by electric...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: July/2021
