Reviews
78rpm
Like the Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Canadian trio of Sheesham Crow on fiddle and harmonica, Lotus Wight, on banjo and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2016
Al Qantara
Majid Bekkas is a Moroccan multi-instrumentalist who has previously explored the meeting points between Maghrebi Gnawa music and the blues....
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2014
Flash Company
There’s a fine line between music that’s tight and that which is so polished it has lost its soul. For...
Reviewed by Olivia Haughton in issue: Apr/May/2013
Antipody
When is a duo not a duo? When it sounds like a chorus. Okay, as a joke it perhaps doesn’t...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: January/February/2022
Sarawoga
Dedicated to his son Sam, who died in a tragic car accident, the Zimbabwean veteran’s latest album opens with the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2013
Kintal da Banda
The Angolan legend José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho, aka Bonga, turns 80 this year and his latest album is released...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2022
Sweden Norway: Norrspel
Ocora's long history of field recordings has played an important role in the documentation of musical traditions from around the...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2015
Del Cuarto Rojo: Homenaje Sonoro Escuchando la Pintura de Rafael Hastings
Peruvian percussionist Manongo Mujica has always been partial to experimentation, as was clear in his work with the influential jazz...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: August/September/2022
In the Kingdom of Dub
Prince Fatty Meets Nostalgia 77
Having paid his producer's dues from acid jazz groups through to Gregory Isaacs and the Sugarhill Gang, Mike Pelanconi's alter-ego...
Reviewed by Michael Brown in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
