Reviews
2015–2025 Les Disques Bongo Joe: 10 Years Of Sonic Explorations
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Les Disques Bongo Joe has grown out of its Geneva record store home, prolifically devoted to the clankily retro-electronic side...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2025
Cumulus Spores
Masters of reimagined improvised music, Ana Kravanja and Samo Kutin might be better known for their excellent work as Širom...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: July/2020
Beaucoup De Piment!
The principal styles of this debut are spunky Afrobeat and tepid jazz fusion, with the emphasis, disappointingly, on the latter....
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2014
Black Cowboys
On his third solo album, one of the founders of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops explores the history of African-American...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2018
Afrika Mamas
One cannot help but be transported to the rolling hills of Zululand when listening to the Afrika Mamas’ latest, self-titled...
Reviewed by Franki Black in issue: June/2016
You, Golden
Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell
You, Golden was apparently recorded live, in a barn and in a smattering of days, but it couldn't sound further...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: December/2022
Barretto-Power
The late great conguero, vocalist and bandleader Ray Barretto was the first US-born percussionist to bring the African-based conga drum...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2021
The Sahara Sessions
As the list of African acts, from Rokia Traoré to Bombino, seeking an indie rock‘n’roll makeover grows ever longer, Etran...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2013
Wild Hog
Wild Hog is the follow-up to Lucy Farrell, Emily Portman, Rachel Newton and Alasdair Roberts’ collaborative debut, At Our Next...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2016
The Rough Guide to Ravi Shankar
To produce a compilation of Ravi Shankar must surely be one of the most daunting tasks, given the wealth of...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
