Reviews

Chapters of My Life

Moken

This debut recording from the Atlanta-based Cameroonian singer and guitarist reveals a very eccentric persona, Moken's voice creeping from a...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2016

Mély

Rozsdamaró

Rozsdamaró are, in terms of the Hungarian folk revival, relative newcomers but committed traditionalists; that is to say that they...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2020

World on the Ground

Sarah Jarosz

Sarah Jarosz's fifth studio release is the product of a new collaboration with musician, songwriter and producer Josh Leventhal. Known...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

The Dance She Spoke

Duende Libre

Duende Libre's third album, The Dance She Spoke, finds the band's founders – pianist Alex Chadsey, drummer Jeff ‘Bongo’ Busch...

Reviewed by Catalina Maria Johnson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Nahadin

Hijaz

Hijaz are a world-jazz quartet centred around the oud and piano of Tunisian-born Moufadhel Adhoum and Belgian-Greek pianist Niko Deman,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2015

Colonised

Eardrum

London-based rhythm masters Eardrum have returned with their fourth full-length release, and what a return they’ve made. The collective was...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2015

La Bodega

Totó la Momposina

Totó la Momposina celebrates her 69th birthday with an irresistible disc of diverse Colombian genres, all rooted in her hometown...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Tudo o Que Move

Orfélia

Antera and Filipe Mattos first met in Berlin and were drawn to each other by their common language: Portuguese. She...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: January/February/2023

Assolist

Efruze

These sentimental tracks come from the golden, pre-Arabesk, age of Turkish gazinos, venues where mixed crowds would come, eat and...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: October/2021

Groanbox

Groanbox

Canada's acoustic world roots-influenced band Groanbox have made a point of recording in unusual settings, and their sixth studio album...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2015