Reviews
Holy Colony: Burning Acres
New Zealand Māori singer Troy Kingi has an ambitious idea of recording ten albums over ten years in ten different...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Areas of High Traffic
Yorkshire-based Ulsterman Damien O’Kane is a familiar name from his key role alongside his wife, Kate Rusby, in her band,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Vocal Superstars at King Jammy’s
Probably the most inventive of producer King Tubby’s dub apprentices, King Jammy took computerised reggae and gave it a defibrillating...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Little Bird
More incisive, searing social and political commentary revealing how folk music can speak as much for our times as it...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2020
A Trip to Bolgatanga
‘A bad attitude is like a flat tire / You can't go anywhere until you change it,’ declares King Ayisoba...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/September/2023
Medna Roso
PJEV, Kit Downes & Hayden Chisholm
This is the kind of inter-cultural collaboration I can get into. Too often, such projects are the mooncalves of questions...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2023
Sîn
Did you ever go into a shop selling vapes and mobile phone cases and the dude behind the counter is...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/2025
Home
Here’s an interesting oddity. A group of African musicians sing in a makeshift studio on the banks of Lake Malawi,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022
Visions
A Harvard student of Latin American studies and ethnomusicology, Kavita Shah has released an album on which the influence of...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
