Reviews
Build Music
This modern street music from Sierra Leone is based on a form of ceremonial Islamic masquerade procession music known as...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2017
Devils and Wonders in Bali
At several points, this disc of Balinese gamelan recordings made in 1974 had me punching the air in excitement. There’s...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: Apr/May/2011
Griais
Named after her home village on Lewis in the Western Isles, Griais is Mackenzie’s first solo album. It’s a bright...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
The Sound of Telemark
Drive three hours west of Oslo and nature beckons. There are farms, trees laden with red apples in late summer,...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2021
Roudennoù / Traces
Renowned as one of the most charismatic traditional singers of Brittany, the late Yann-Fañch Kemener released a double album embracing...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: June/2019
Charlie Gillett's Radio Picks: Honky Tonk Vol 2
Long before Charlie Gillett became a world music DJ (and guru) he was something of a seer for what's now...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2015
A Tribute to Lead Belly
The songs of Lead Belly were first popularised in Britain during the skiffle era of the mid-50s, when Lonnie Donegan...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2015
Three Bells
Jerry Douglas, Mike Auldridge & Rob Ickes
Take three of the greatest dobro players on the planet, toss them together in a studio with a playlist that...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2014
Foxlight
It's taken the County Cork-born former Afro Celts singer six years to follow up his staggeringly visceral Invisible Fields, which...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: October/2011
