Reviews
The Kankobela of the Batonga Vol 1
Once fishermen and farmers on the rich alluvial banks of the Zambezi, the Batonga were driven at gun¬point from their...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: March/2010
The Norwegian Bagpipe (?) Vol II
Norwegian bagpipes? Trust me or, rather, trust Tellef Kvifte. He's one of Norwegian music's treasures: as professor of musicology researching...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2023
Bamako Sessions
Invisible System, aka producer and multi-instrumentalist Dan Harper, is best known for his heavy dub-rock takes on Ethiopian music, drafting...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2018
The Auld Harp
Catriona McKay & Olov Johansson
The Swedish nyckelharpa (key harp) is an extraordinary instrument. Played with a bow to produce a sound with many of...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Amandla
Zimbabwean singer Shelter Matshelela presents us here with an archetypal bubblegum (township pop) album brim-full of happy, head-nodding tunes. Matshelela...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: November/2018
Coxsone's Music
Record producer Coxsone Dodd found fame through his legendary Studio One, which gave a big break to such names as...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: April/2016
The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff
“If they were expecting any rewards, they didn't get any rewards. They were the first people to be victimised,” we...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2019
Hidden
Marry Waterson & Oliver Knight
She may have one of the most famous surnames in folk but one thing’s for certain: this isn’t, by any...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: October/2012
Guitar Improvisations & Tashi Dorji
These two albums were originally issued solely on cassette by Headway Recordings, a now-defunct local label in Asheville, North Carolina,...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2024
Mbalimaou
The first album in four years from this much-loved Malian singer and guitarist finds him on fairly familiar ground, but...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: March/2015
