Reviews
Live at the NCH
Dublin's National Concert Hall has become a home from home for The Gloaming – they spent seven nights there in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2018
Giant + Guitar
Wewantsounds continues its remarkable work in excavating long deleted Arabic albums of the 1970s and reissuing them on LP (and...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: January/February/2022
Salulandela
Back in the late 1980s, the tight, chirpy hits of pop-fusion outfit Ilanga were a staple of Zimbabwean radio. The...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: Apr/May/2011
Nocturne
Born in Marseilles to Afro-Caribbean parents, Walters has enjoyed a varied career from founding the French electro hip-hop collective Zimpala...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2021
Nueva Era
In Cuba it's all about a nueva era right now. With Fidel Castro convalescing, his younger brother Raúl rubbing shoulders...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Dancing on Roses, Dancing on Cinders
The raw brass band music that accompanies all important celebrations in the Balkans has been given a serious spit and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Guitar Tango: Más Allá
Martín Alvarado & Horacio Avilano
Mentored by the late bandoneón player and songwriter Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer Martín Alvarado has been plying his plaintive, precisely...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Jamaica is the Place to Go
This two-CD set follows 2013's Mento, Not Calypso! by further exploring the 1950s mento scene. Often overshadowed by Trinidad's golden...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: October/2015
Bardik Springs
Bardik Springs is very much an album of two halves. The first CD offers an elegant fusion of Indian classical...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2018
Imrich
In 1979 Calum Martin released his first studio album. Fort years later, with the release of Imrich, Martin continues to...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: December/2019
