Reviews

Elwan

Tinariwen

The seventh album from the world's favourite Touareg rockers is an album of both power and poignancy. It's a tale...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2017

Ilmamõtsan

Mari Kalkun

Mari Kalkun released her debut album ten years ago. Since then she has performed in many parts of the world...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2018

The Rough Guide to the Music of China

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Although the liner notes trumpet the massive changes in China since the last Rough Guide CD was compiled ten years...

Reviewed by Rachel Harris in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Country Hits Bluegrass Style

Ricky Skaggs

Ricky Skaggs is the quintessential crossover artist, as long as you're talking about crossing over the rickety old bridge that...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Ilha d’Melodia

Ceuzany

Ceuzany used to front Cordas do Sol, whose album Lume d’Lenha was apparently bought by one in ten Cape Verdeans....

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: November/2016

Essencia

Madredeus

What’s good about the newly reformed and reinvented Madredeus is that they sound so much like the Madredeus of old....

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Awakening

Spiritual

Listening to ‘Black Man Story’, the opening track, is like stepping back to the 1970s, so evocative are the vocal...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2017

The Inner Indian

Hélène Brunet & Nicola Hayes

This is a duo with a difference: Nicola Hayes is an Australian fiddler who has settled in Brittany and teamed...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2017

É o Que a Casa Oferece

Gabriel da Rosa

Having relocated to Los Angeles in 2010, Brazilian musician Gabriel da Rosa turned into a DJ that introduced his country's...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2023

Gleimim

Chalaban

This sixth album from Hungarian-Moroccan band Chalaban takes its title from the nickname of bandleader Saïd Tichiti's childhood home of...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2018