Reviews
Songs For Workers
Tian Qiyi featuring Jah Wobble
Ridiculously talented brothers John and Charlie Wardle return to further enhance the meeting point between Chinese and Western music. Charlie...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: October/2025
The Strange One
A fiery fuzz guitar solo, reggaeton bridge, vocals switching between Spanish and English, searing violins and a constant hip-hop/cumbia beat...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2020
Going for Broke
Good Habits are a duo from Manchester Bonnie Schwarz (vocals/cello) and Pete Shaw (accordion/cajón). By a quirk of fate, they...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2020
Sing For Me
From Ziguinchor, southern Senegal, the musical heartland of the country, Cherif Mbaw’s second international release brings little of his musical...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: October/2010
Lament for Syria
A former teacher and journalist in his native Syria, Jan Ibro Khelil fled to Norway in 2010 and was granted...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
For the Olives
With For the Olives, New Orleans-based Trendafilka extends the legacy of Eastern European polyphonic singing into the 21st century. An...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2025
Garrincha – Estrela Solitária OST
Brazilians have an expansive metaphor for their football team’s enduring 50s icon. Wing legend Manuel Francisco dos Santos, aka Garrincha,...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2010
Lullaby for Naila
How right-on do you like your music? The London Lucumi Choir is a community choir that doesn’t select through auditions....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
LIVE – Olympiahalle München
LaBrassBanda hail from Bavaria, and this homecoming concert found them playing to 12,000 fans. You read that correctly: not 1,200...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Shivelight
‘Shivelight’ is the light that dances and dapples through a canopy of trees; something that captures the essence of the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2018
