Reviews
Salida de Emergencia
Women have always been central to tango – as whores, drunks, Oedipal mothers, girlfriends and social climbers. On the performing...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2012
Novaera
If you don’t speak Sardo, the language of Sardinia, then you’re destined to seek other kinds of satisfaction in the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2015
Silent Folk
Since the 1980s, Groupa have been at the vanguard of progressive Nordic folk, their boldness influencing a whole generation of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2014
Elbow Room
Following 2016's North, a set of bracing duos with Belfast-born fiddler Conor Caldwell, Elbow Room is the second solo offering...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Rio Samba
Uh-oh. Rio… samba, sun and Olympic Games spring to mind. Something tawdry, perhaps, to cash in on the hullabaloo. Not...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2016
Dancing Time: The Best of Eastern Nigeria's Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77
As suggested in the title, The Funkees were one of the Nigerian bands in the 1970s whose musical bias lay...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2012
Magic Spirit Quartet
As one of the leaders of the Gnawa revival and its incursions into fusion, Majid Bekkas has stressed the importance...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: May/2020
Colour by Number
Having grown up in Australia’s Northern Territory city of Darwin, singer-songwriter Leah Flanagan proudly claims a mixed multicultural heritage that...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2020
Pressure to Pleasure
Recorded live in studios in Lagos and London by a sprawling Afrobeat band led by bassist and vocalist Femi Sofela,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2018
