Reviews
Past Present Future
He may be almost 80, but Manu Dibango shows no sign of slowing. Both his sax playing and extraordinary basso...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2012
Peoplewatching
I’ve got a lot of time for Socalled, Montréal rapper and producer. His early work with Sophie Solomon and his...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
School of life
All great family stories are marked by rivalry and conflict as well as profound coherence. The last seven years in...
Reviewed by Katharina Lobeck Kane in issue: July/2010
The Poor Shall Wear the Crown: Songs by Leon Rosselson
In 2020 when the UK locked down because of COVID-19 and live performance was impossible, Nancy Kerr had a bright...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2022
Sirocco
On the remix of ‘Andalucia’ that concludes this rewarding album, intermittent shots of percussion unsettle the underlying rumba and flamenco...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2018
New York–Addis– London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965–1975
Keyboardist, vibra¬phone player and bandleader Mulatu Astatke was an early subject for Francis Falceto’s acclaimed Éthiopiques series, and 14 fine...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Djaale
Born in France, with a Cameroonian background, singer Ekoumé was a member of saxophonist Manu Dibango's band for eight years....
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2016
KUNE
KUNE: Canada's Global Orchestra
Toronto is a famously cosmopolitan city in an increasingly multicultural country, and KUNÉ was a project deliberately created to reflect...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
The Following Mountain
For those Amidon fans still swooning over the gentle folksiness of his previous five albums, The Following Mountain may come...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2017
Fiddle Tunes
Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray
This album's modest title reflects the pure reverence, unmitigated by contemporised showiness, with which these instrumentalists approach music from Ireland,...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2023
