Reviews
Joyas del Guajiro
The rural Cuban singer-songwriter Polo Montañez, who was killed in a road accident in 2002 only three years after his...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2024
SOLÓWA
The title translates as ‘solo’, as well as being a word describing children squabbling after school, while the cover shows...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: September/2024
Far Driven Sun
Bergamo-based Buck Curran spent ages tracking down a Stefan Sobell guitar he sold years back and has celebrated the reunion...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: January/2026
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
Ke Haber
Israeli artist ‘Nani’ Noam Vazana sings and writes in Ladino, a Romance language spoken by Spanish Jews in the 15th...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/February/2022
Lus
Cesaria Evora may have put the Cape Verde islands on the musical map, but the next generation of artists from...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Anywhere On This Road
The series we’d hoped would run forever is over. Charlie Gillett's annual double-disc survey of his favourite sounds from the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: October/2010
Low Country Blues
From the opening track of Gregg All man’s Low Country Blues – a funky, foot-stomping version of Sleepy John Estes’...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2011
Access Denied
Brexit, Trump and the rise of right-wing populism has positively cried out for the militant intervention of Asian Dub Foundation,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
