Reviews
East Atlanta Passover Stomp
Fourth Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra
How can anyone not be intrigued by an album that begins with a track titled ‘Greater Lagos Wednesday Night Talmud...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2010
Mỹ Lai
Kronos Quartet, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, Rinde Eckert
The Apocalypse Now image on the album cover and the title Mỹ Lai, the name of a terrible massacre of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2022
Say Africa
The man they simply call ‘The Voice’ in South Africa is little known to British audiences. But he has highly...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2012
Guantanamera: The Essential Album
‘Ten years without Compay Segundo,’ says the sticker on the album cover, which is a slightly odd marketing slogan for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Saturnine
Saturnine arrived with a press release announcing that Jackie Oates has launched a range of cosmetics in the Lush stores....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2011
Ongaku Zukan
Sadly, Sakamoto left this mortal coil in March 2023: re-releasing this 1984 album, originally recorded as the Yellow Magic Orchestra...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: November/2023
Ritual Sonoro
How far can you fuse without creating the musical equivalent of brown plasticine? Andalusian singer-songwriter and musician Amparo Sánchez (aka...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2025
Sankofa
Thandiswa Mazwai burst onto the global music scene as the charismatic frontwoman of Bongo Maffin, pioneers of South African kwaito,...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2024
