Reviews
Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81
At a time when so much music is being reissued and repackaged, it is heartening that there are still labels...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Daora: Underground Sounds of Urban Brasil – Hip-Hop, Beats, Afro & Dub
When it comes to cinema, ‘urban’ may be a synonym for gritty andmonochromatic, but that is most certainly not the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2013
Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall & the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program
Preservation matches a wildly diverse collection of 20 well-known performers (The Blind Boys of Alabama, Angélique Kidjo, Merle Haggard and...
Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: October/2010
Rhythm of the Griot
Kora player Diabel Cissokho has long explored the connection between blues and the griot tradition, most notably on the album...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Behold
The Birmingham district of Handsworth gave birth to one of the UK's strongest roots reggae scenes of the 70s and...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2019
Encores
How the mighty fall. Charles Aznavour is one of the last remaining French icons from an era where only the...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: October/2015
Optimisme
‘Badala’, the opening track on Songhoy Blues’ third album, is rather alarming – which of course was the band’s intention....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2020
The Don Ca Tai Tu: Chamber Music of the Mekong Delta
In 2013 the southern Vietnamese chamber music genre don ca tai tu was officially recognised as intangible cultural heritage by...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: October/2014
Canta Cartola
Cartola was perhaps the most exhilarating of all samba songwriters. Not the kind of samba like the frantic dance...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
In Trad We Trust
This irrepressible Finnish harmonica quartet have delighted and astonished us for 17 years, producing eight albums ranging music from Sibelius...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/2021
