Reviews
Djourou
For this, his 11th album, the Paris-based kora maestro Ballaké Sissoko collaborated with a clutch of genre-diverse French and African...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2021
Contreband Mentality
Les Frères are a 14-strong Paris-based Afro-beat collective who, for some bizarre reason, all take the same surname in the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2012
Chants Berbères de Kabylie
In the middle part of the 20th century, pioneering poets, writers and singers rediscovered micro¬cosms of traditional culture that had...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: July/2010
AfroCubism
Fourteen years after the improvised sessions that begat Buena Vista Social Club, World Circuit returns to its original vision: an...
Reviewed by David Hutch eon in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Le QuecumBar Live in London
Patrick Saussois & Daniel John Martin
LeQuecumBar is the south-west London pub devoted to Gypsy jazz à la Django Reinhardt and his followers. Offering both major...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2010
¡Soy Salvadoreño!
For their latest musical discovery Smithsonian Folkways have unearthed Los Hermanos Lovos and their chanchona style of music from the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2012
Como Lo Ves
With their selection box of various Latin styles, Lariba are another border-erasing product of music’s global village. The eight-piece –...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Conscription
The deranged frontman known only as Mike H led his motley Danish crew The Sexican across their debut album The...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2013
Traditional Songs and Dances From Colombia
Like field research in an anthropological journal, the album Traditional Songs and Dances From Colombia often comes across like a...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Cantano Gli Ucci
Mascarimirì like to say they were born in a Salento ‘not yet touristic’ and out of the union ‘between tradition...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2024
