Reviews
Tudo o Que Move
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
Zama Zama
A Zulu expression, roughly translating as let‘s try our luck’, might not seem the likeliest choice of title for a...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: March/2010
Live at Town Hall
For my money The Klezmatics have been the most important band on the klezmer scene over the past 25 years....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2012
The Joy of Living
Ewan MacColl wrote the song Jackie Oates has chosen as the title-track of her seventh album when he realised his...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2018
Dub Zealand
Reggae recognises no borders and ever since Bob Marley performed a legendary one-off show in Auckland in 1979, the irie...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2011
Trujillo, Perú 1971-1974
Somewhere along the way cumbia has become the term used to describe Latin America’s golden age of tropical, danceable music,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2021
Horns of Freedom
It’s hard to think of a time when Afrobeat was so in vogue. New Fela Kuti reissues are a monthly...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2014
Sunbox
Sunbox, album number three from Netherlands-based trad-rockers Hot Griselda, marks the fired-up foursome's tenth anniversary with all the adrenalised attack...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2019
