Reviews
Planet Lam
Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band
The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band's second studio album sees the band move on from the rootsy molam music of...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
The Witching Tale
I’m afraid I was all too ready to dismiss this eponymous debut album as just so much airy-fairy hokum. The...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: January/February/2022
De Todas las Flores
Lafourcade's first album of new, original material in seven years shows an artist in command of her many talents but...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2022
The Rough Guide to Brazilian Jazz
It's fair to say Brazilian music has been in intimate dialogue with jazz almost from the genre's 19th-century inception –...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Radio Salone
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Sierra Leone's reggae band, the Refugee All Stars, emerged from the refugee camps born of the brutal civil war that...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: June/2012
Flash of the Spirit
Jon Hassell is a contemporary classical minimalist musician who forged a deep engagement with music from India and West Africa....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2020
El Alma de Puerto Rico
In Puerto Rico, the term jíbaro can refer positively to a mountain-dwelling rural worker or, snobbishly, to a supposedly ignorant...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2017
Baladi Blues Reloaded
Baladi music lies at the root of Arab pop music. It's a popular Egyptian style that developed during the 1920s,...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
L’amour Fou
It’s been 50 years, incredibly, since Françoise Hardy’s first single introduced a demurely beautiful Parisienne to the top ranks of...
Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: June/2013
