Reviews
Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-70
Apala is a style of call-and-response music popular in the Islamic culture of the Yoruba population of south-west Nigeria. It...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020
Roll Up the Night Sky
Canadian Dana Sipos has one of those voices usually described in words such as ethereal, ghostly, pastoral or ‘almost identical...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2015
Carta a mi Amada
The ultimate world music, tango had crossed the globe many decades before any such phrase was coined. It is a...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2018
Wayo
On the opening title-track of Benjamin's third album, the guitar riffs explode like Led Zeppelin and the drums detonate like...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2023
La Serena
For many years, Canadian singer Aviva Chernick was the vocalist with Toronto-based klezmer group Jaffa Road. Having gone solo, she's...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
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
