Reviews
Alasdair Roberts
In the past few years, Roberts has released the double album Wonder Working Stone, recorded an album with Scottish poet...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2015
Maldivian Traditional Music From V Keyodhoo
The remote nature of the Maldives and its Indian Ocean islands has meant that, over the centuries, its inhabitants have...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: March/2015
To Know Without Knowing
Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience
This is the second album that Mulatu Astatke, one of the fathers of Ethio-jazz, has recorded with ‘BJX’, the 12-piece...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Antiphony of the Trees
Laura Cannell | Laura Cannell & Stewart Lee & Friends
Antiphony of the Trees, the seventh record from Laura Cannell, saw a change of scenery for the composer and improvisor....
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2022
Now We are Four
Now that no one's taking live music for granted, it makes the release of a new live album from Devon...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2021
Faya
New Yorker Joe Driscoll (now based in the UK and part of the One Taste collective) and Sekou Kouyaté, the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Stand Up, People: Gypsy Pop Songs From Tito's Yugoslavia 1964-1980
When students Philip Knox and Nathaniel Morris found they shared a passion for Balkan music, specifically the kind discovered in...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Dernier Appel
The singer Tiken Jah Fakoly is next in line to Alpha Blondy on the somewhat specialised Ivory Coast reggae scene,...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2014
Barokan
Singer Djely Tapa is the daughter of the great Malian diva Kandia Kouyaté, aka La Grande Vedette Malienne, arguably one...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: January/2021
Iaith Enaid: The Language of the Soul
Traditional Welsh harp music isn’t for everyone. But, since 1983, Robin Huw Bowen, the only full-time professional Welsh harpist specialising...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2015
