Reviews
Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book
Growing up in West Virginia in the 1930s and 40s, this singer-songwriter, while listening to the likes of Merle Haggard...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2025
Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds in the Diaspora, 1980-93
This compilation, the second in a Soundways series that started with 2009’s Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-1981,...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2024
Ayo Ke Disco: Boogie, Pop & Funk from the South China Sea (1974-88)
The fruit of an extensive archival project by Soundway Records label boss Alice Whittington (AKA DJ Norsicaa), Ayo Ke Disco...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2024
Band of Gypsies 2
Taraf de Haidouks & Koçani Orkestar
Ten years ago Romania's super fast Gypsy fiddling stars Taraf de Haidouks teamed up with Macedonian brass band the Koçani...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2011
Polygon
Mihály Borbély is a Hungarian player of saxophone, clarinet and other wind instruments. In this live recording he's with the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Lamwong: Freedom Fighters
The musicians from the Acholi tribe in remote northern Uganda were recorded on Lamwong by producer Ian Brennan, known for...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Clay
Flo Perlin is a London-based singer-songwriter with Iraqi/Belarusian roots, a lovely resonant voice and a knack for writing hook-laden songs...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2024
Bosa Maria
Twenty five years on from their debut, the finest and best-known exponents of Bosnian sevdah are still in a class...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/2025
It’s Been a Long, Long Time
As the title of their fourth full-length suggests, it been too long since we had an album by Scotland’s premier...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2025
