Reviews
Une Vie Formidable
‘Oh, for a beaker full of the warm South!’ It would not surprise me were I to learn that Keats...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2011
Ouaga Affair: Hard Won Sound Of The Upper Volta 1974-1978
Ouaga Affair collects 15 tracks from the musical boom of the 1970s Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). But to see...
Reviewed by Ollie Sanders in issue: June/2010
3 Sessions in a Greenhouse
On recent albums, Lucas Santtana has become a modern troubadour, channelling pop, protest song and natural charm, so it’s easy...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2021
Message on the Wind
Thursday Island is a small place – only 3.5 square kilometres in size – lying off the northern tip of...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2013
Portraits 30
The Meto Brothers Band | The Sowa Musical Dynasty of Piątkowa
Polish Radio's series of releases called MuzykaZródel (Sources of Polish Folk Music) are a superb introduction to the country's regional...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2015
Simultonality
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Simultonality features the Moroccan gimbri (lute), its bass fashioned from the skin of a camel's neck stretched across a wooden...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2017
Naquêl Tempo Câ Tinha
Elísio Gomes & Papá de Betina hail from Santa Catarina on Cape Verde's island of Santiago. Both were in their...
Reviewed by Bram Posthumus in issue: May/2023
Zvony
Adrian Myhr & Michaela Antalová
This is a duo recording of Slovak and Norwegian flutes with double bass. The flutes, played by Michaela Antalová, are...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/February/2022
Alegrià e Libertà
Lucilla Galeazzi, Didier Laloy, Ialma, Carlo Rizzo and Maarten Decombel
This feels like a convivial affair – a motley group of musicians coming together, jamming, finding they get along really...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Step Forward Youth
“The marriage of reggae and punk rock,” said Dave Hendley, reggae connoisseur and photographer of many a great album cover,...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: April/2019
