Reviews
Heavenless
Vin Gordon is a true legend of the Jamaican music scene. As a stalwart trombonist he has featured on albums...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2016
Gwo Ka: Music of Guadeloupe, West Indies
Many listeners may have been drawn to the exuberant, complex percussion found in Guadaloupe by Kassav’, the long-lived Paris-based band...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Liber
The Dutch Antillean island of Curaçao hasn‘t yet become a central presence on the world music landscape, but these gorgeous...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: March/2010
Mande Kulu
This is a sequel to 2015's Sangoyi, with the core collaboration between Malian residents Samba Diabaté and Vincent Zanetti (both...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2017
Room of Wonders
Where music explorer Bela Fleck once trod unknown ground with the banjo, taking it into jazz and popular music, Canadian...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2011
Tepid on My Trippin’ Heels
Naomi Randall is a Cambridge native who debuted in 2013 with an album she shared with Tom Gaskall. Randall continued...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2020
Old Chairs to Mend
David Gibb's second solo album, There Are Birds in My Garden [reviewed in #79] revealed the adventurous musical mind of...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012
Rádio Kriola
The idea could have proved a little too ambitious, but the truth is that in a single grasp Catarina Dos...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2018
