Reviews
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
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
