Reviews
Common Nation of Sorrow
Americans are angry. The signs are hard to miss. Bluegrass and old-time banjo music are good for expressing these discontents,...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2023
4
The product of a decade of musical research and cross-continental collaboration, 4 is the fruit of Leni Stern's forays into...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Livre
A seminal figure in Portuguese music, the guitarist Mário Pacheco for many years ran the Clube de Fado in Lisbon...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2022
Zhyli-Byli
Sergei Starostin is a major figure on the Russian folk scene, yet he’s still all too little known, despite his...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2011
The ABCD
Born and bred in London, the rapper Olushola Ajose, better known as Afrikan Boy, has re-examined his Nigerian roots in...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Hommage à Marcel Dadi
Tunisian-born French guitarist Marcel Dadi was a master of the fingerpicking style associated with Chet Atkins and Merle Travis. A...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2017
Democrazy
It's a sign of our amazing cross-cultural times that a group hailing from the Massif Central, the wild granite heart...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Mambas
Keyboardist Jean Baptiste FerrÉ was born in Paris, with a mixed French and Guadeloupian heritage. His studies spanned classical and...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
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Pueblo Vivo (Vibrant People)
It's always a pleasure with world music – and especially so with Latin American rhythms – to be disorientated. When...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
