Reviews
Sachal Jazz
This CD has been featured all over the place – CNN, the BBC and Al-Jazeera – and has already been...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
The Whole Affair – The Very Best of Mary Coughlan
Four years since her last release, the finest jazz and blues singer Ireland has produced since the late Ottilie Patterson...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Sur Mon Dos
Like Manu Chao, Matjé is a musical voyager, who took his artist’s name from the Creole word ‘to write’. The...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2023
ON – Live at the Jam Jar
A ‘topette’ is a shot of liquor. In Poitou-Charentes, where the band met, it means ‘Cheers!’. Topette!! is thus the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2024
The Rough Guide to Blind Willie McTell
The ongoing Rough Guides series showcasing the great blues and jazz masters of the first half of the 20th century...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2018
Brothers of Brazil
Bossa nova never really dies, it just gets repackaged – if never quite like this. While Nouvelle Vague applied the...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2011
In Modern Times
A ship sinks; a few survivors adrift in a boat, famished, cast lots to decide who is to die to...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Nó Na Orelha
Since Nó Na Orelha was released in Brazil last year, the São Paulo rapper Criolo has become one of the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
