Reviews
The Village
Although most of the compositions on this CD are based on traditional Zimbabwean songs, it would be fair to say...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2013
The Brickfields
This fourth studio album from the British folk trio is one of many albums born out of the pandemic that...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2021
The Woods
The Woods marks the third instalment of acclaimed musician and composer Hamish Napier's ode to his native Scottish Highlands. Following...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2020
The Mutiny
If there is a word that sums up this collective founded in Cambridge by husband-and-wife duo Joel Clayton (guitar and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2012
The Secret
In the past, some of Vieux Farka Touré's guitar playing has steered perilously close to the self-indulgent and generic, particularly...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2011
The Art of the Daegeum Sanjo
The latest of Inédit's series of Korean sanjo releases is for daegeum, a horizontal bamboo flute with a resonator and...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: Apr/May/2015
Tjukurpa: The Story/Kulila: The Remixes
With his own career somewhat overshadowed by the commercial success of other Aboriginal songmen like Archie Roach and the late...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: April/2020
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Africa
If time travel ever becomes a viable option, Africa during the 1960s and 70s will be a priority destination if...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: June/2012
Spellbound
It might be an act of contrariness for one of the world’s leading percussionists to devote an album to the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2013
