Reviews
Tiny Little Light
Mikey Kenney’s dexterous fiddle playing has long been coveted by folk musicians from across the world. But his songwriting, formerly...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: January/2026
Soul Ecstasy
Grammy Award winner Chandrika Tandon’s new album – glowingly titled Soul Ecstasy – provides exactly as promised. Describing herself as...
Reviewed by James Rorison in issue: January/2026
Memories of Magic – Mahō no Kioku
The first few tracks on this album are a red herring. The soft, cinematic tinkling of ‘Alchemy’ and the somewhat...
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: January/2026
Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent
The musicians of Brittany and Ireland have long held each other in high musical esteem and nowhere is this admiration...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2017
Yobadi
How can you justify subjecting the raw power of traditional Moroccan Gnawa music to a pernickety, pimple-picking, over-intellectualised version of...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011
Etike
Jeannot Bel is a UK-based Congolese guitarist who is a regular member of Kanda Bongo Man’s touring band. He recently...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
White Power Outage Vol 2
The revolution will not be televised, nor will it be terribly organised if the Free Radicals are in charge. Active...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: August/September/2022
The Gnawa Caravan: Salt
London-based gimbri master and Gnawa evangelist Simo Lagnawi is becoming a prolific and reliable recording artist, releasing Gnawa-themed albums with...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2016
Romanian Tales
Diana Rasina is a Romanian singer, based in Vienna. Romanian Tales is a strong album and certainly marks her as...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2016
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Cumbia
The ever-growing thirst for Peruvian cumbia (sometimes known as chicha) is showing no signs of being satiated. What started in...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: November/2015
