Reviews
Bamako Nights: Live at Bar Bozo 1995
The late Lobi Traoré’s reputation as the wild maverick of the Malian electric guitar is based less on his recorded...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: March/2014
Nayan Navaa
Nayan Navaa is Namgar Lhasaranova’s fourth release since she formed the band under her name in 2001. Namgar is a...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: October/2021
Mae ’na Olau
Siân James, Gwyneth Glyn, Meinir Gwilym and Gwenan Gibbard first sang together five years ago, and after recording five songs...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2023
Antologia, Vol 1
When it comes to vintage dance music from the tiny Atlantic African islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, it would...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2022
Songs by Geirr Tveitt
This music is fragile, meditative and delicate, with soundscapes leading us into secret, intimate places. The names on the album...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Qhum Qhaks
Kwaito, the music that blew up in 90s post-apartheid South Africa characterised by slowed-down house beats and breezy rapping, is...
Reviewed by Timothy Romain in issue: June/2019
Freedom to Roam The Rhythms of Migration
What are ‘the rhythms of migration’ – are they natural, forced, seasonal? And how do you evoke or embody them...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2022
Together
The Mercury Music Prize – arguably Britain's premier album award – has a reputation for destroying rather than making careers....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2011
A Lament for Epirus 1926-1928
This compilation was first issued as a limited edition Record Store Day vinyl release, which promptly sold out. Now, it...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
