Reviews
Overnight
The award-winning duo's first album for Rough Trade is their finest work to date, and certainly among the best folk...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2016
Badinyaa Kumoo
Long respected as the first internationally successful female kora player, it is more than a decade since Sona Jobarteh's last...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2022
My Seven-String Chadyghan: Songs from the Khahas North
The chadyghan is a long wooden box of a zither, exquisitely played here by Khakassian singer and instrumentalist Yulia Charkova...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: Apr/May/2012
Crocodile Blues
Songhai Blues, Samba Touré's debut album of two years ago, was sub-titled ‘Homage To Ali Farka Touré’; the late guitarist...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Time of the Skeleton Lords
The monastery of Tashi Lhunpo, seat of the Panchen Lama (second only to the Dalai Lama), is probably the most...
Reviewed by Mark Trewin in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
In D
After their extraordinary recording of Terry Riley's In C in 2017, the eclectic New York-based collective known as BRM follow...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2021
2 Times Revolution
The Sicilian-born but Jamaican-based singjay and multi– instrumentalist Alberto ‘Alborosie’ D'Ascola first came to attention with a series of rootsy...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: October/2011
Opérette Volume 2
The subtitle of this delightful album, Chansons Marseillaises 1930-1940, suggests no obvious Jamaican link. Yet Moussu T was initially inspired...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2018
Tunes from the Trenches: Songs from the First and Second World Wars
This kit-bag full of old songs springs from John Kirkpatrick's feeling that we get nearer to what the soldiers felt...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2015
West to West
If you had to sum up Nii Okai Tagoe in the reductionist shorthand pigeonholing that the modern world demands, ‘Ghanaian...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
