Reviews
Good Times Will Come Again
The seventh studio album from the enviably self-sufficient husband-and-wife team of Stu and Debbie Hanna, otherwise known as Megson, strikes...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2016
Woven
The first album from the highly talented Northumbrian singer and flautist Sarah Hayes starts very promisingly. ‘The Fell Line’ is...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Tarkabarka
Balamuc are a London-based band with a global membership and a clear interest in the music of the Roma, especially...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: October/2023
Mad Dogs
Kentucky singer, songwriter and poet Grace Rogers comes from a family of old time, traditional and stringband musicians – during...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: August/2025
Sabor Sureño
No qualms about this. Craft’s latest Fania reissue is a certifiable classic – or as near as damn it. The...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2024
Kopolo
The charming tropical rainforest recordings of this Cameroonian pygmy group have won them quite a fanbase. Unfortunately, this latest instalment...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Apr/May/2013
Other Side of the Rock
Singer-songwriter Shane Howard is a quiet legend in Australia. Born of Irish-Catholic heritage and raised in rural Victoria, he’s one...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2013
Cartagena!
Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound of Colombia 1962-72
Aqui en la costa me vuelve loco’ (Here on the Coast I go Mad). So sings the great band leader...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2011
The Adventures of Prince Ahmed
This CD/DVD combination is absolutely brilliant, not least for the restoration of this ground-breaking animated film by the German Film...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2013
