Reviews

Suelta

La Yegros

The third album from La Yegros (aka Mariana Yegros, the queen of nu cumbia), the French-based singer-songwriter with family in...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2019

Eilov

Gro Marie Svidal

Mountains, glaciers, fjords – this is the landscape of Jølster in western Norway, just north of Bergen, where Gro Marie...

Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: December/2016

Nootee

Abdou Diop

The richness of sub-Saharan West African music continues to unfold before our ears as regional styles are identified and new...

Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Africa Express Presents…

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Africa Express is a loose cooperative of like minds (with Damon Albarn somewhere near the hub) that takes Western rock...

Reviewed by Mark Ellingham in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Unearth Repeat

Sam Sweeney

Following on from his Island Records’ debut, The Unfinished Violin, England's premier fiddler releases a small band album with a...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020

Doomsday Survival Kit

Praed

Don't be fooled by the short tracklisting on Lebanese duo Praed's fourth album. The four tracks near an hour of...

Reviewed by Tutku Barbaros in issue: December/2019

La Gouache

R.wan

In 2000, Parisian band Java gave traditional bal-musette (French accordion music) a 21st-century makeover, adding the lyrics of Erwan Séguillon...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: March/2021

Zona Zero

Remna

Remna Schwarz dedicates this album to his father José Carlos Schwarz, a legendary figure in Bissau-Guinean culture as a poet,...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2019

Balkanica! v2

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This album is the second in the Balkan-ica! series from Green Queen Music, an Italian label run by Luca Gatti...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2011

Xalam

Ben Aylon

Born in Israel, Ben Aylon has spent much of the last dozen years in West Africa and in particular in...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2021