Reviews
Cubafonía
This second album by Havana-born singer Daymé Arocena partly came about via ‘a platform for contemporary Cuban creativity driven by...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2017
From a Heritage Tree
Like so many recent releases, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer Daniel Sherrill’s From a Heritage Tree owes its existence, at least...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/September/2022
Black Man's Pride
Gathering 18 Studio One recordings from across the 1970s that focus loosely on the black experience, this album finds Alton...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2018
Live From Celtic Connections 2019
Nearly a quarter of a century on and this group is still corralled by Shetland fiddler Aly Bain and his...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2019
Tin Hinane
There’s a sharp comment in the liner notes of this debut album to the effect that the band Kel Asouf...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Unite
Some folks follow in the footsteps of Fela, others follow Femi… This ten-piece Afrobeat band from Spain seem to opt...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2022
Eve
Dedicated to ‘the women of Africa, to their resilience and their beauty, Kidjo’s tenth studio album features the voices of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2014
I Am of Ireland: Yeats in Song
It’s been done before and often, but never with such silken, seductive charm as here. Readily lending themselves to music,...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2021
Hokin Janapar
There was once, in London in the 1920s, a now largely forgotten author named Michael Arlen, an Armenian born in...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2021
