Reviews
The River
The River is Napier's first solo album, and a rather intriguing and exciting one it is too. Napier is a...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2016
The Bridge
Arash Moradi plays the tanbur – a saz-like long-necked lute that is played in Iranian Kurdistan. For many it is...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2018
The Promise
Turkish oud player Mehmet Polat further develops his style on this solo album with the help of others on traditional...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2020
The Healing
BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness) return with an album of ‘music for the people, by the people, with the people.’...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: July/2019
Out Here on the Perimeter (1989–1996)
By 1989, where the Out Here on the Perimeter boxset begins, Jamaican drummer Lincoln ‘Style’ Scott was a fully committed...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2025
Acadian All Star Special
What a beautifully packaged project this is: a large box housing three CDs and a hardback book full of rare...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2012
The Lost Songs of World War II
It is truly extraordinary how so many treasures of Jewish music got lost or were concealed behind the Iron Curtain...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2018
The Rough Guide to Tango Revival
While you are listening if not dancing to this great sequence of tangos, you might ponder the reasons as to...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
The Treasure Isle Ska Albums Collection
The international popularity of ska launched Jamaica's music industry in the early 1960s and one of the big players on...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019
The Good is a Big God
Over the years, I have returned to Rio drummer Domenico Lancellotti's collaborations with Moreno Veloso and Alexandre Kassin - the...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
