Reviews
Air Chall :Lost
A founder member of Dóchas, Rachel Walker is superbly backed up here by a core band comprising Jenna Reid, Kathleen...
Reviewed by Debbie Koritsas in issue: July/2010
The Kusum Beat
That the author of the liner notes, in archetypal 1970s African self¬empowerment fashion, signs himself ‘Super Star’ is as likely...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2010
Yes We Can: Songs About Leaving Africa
Exile, and the pain of separation, have always inspired some great music and this cleverly conceived and refreshingly original compilation,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2010
Handmade
Supplying the music for a big-budget TV ad campaign might provoke eat-ealls from the anti-corporate quarter, but the cash does...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2010
Tangaria
French accordionist Richard Galliano knocks out an album or two every year and tours widely as a sort of ambassador...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2010
Number One Bus
Dressed in griot-chic and wielding his gimbri like a Fender Stratocaster, Nuru Kane comes on like a trans-Saharan cross between...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2010
UNITE: A Gathering of Strangers
Hamid Man Tu and Tim Whelan of Transglobal Underground have fashioned an ambitious pan-European project around the banner of UNITE...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2010
Ayobaness! The Sound of South African House
‘This is the new Africa,’ declares the liner notes. But it isn't really. House music has been thudding out of...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2010
Memories of John
The many former colleagues and fans of the late bluegrass fiddler, banjoist and songwriter John Hartford needed no persuading to...
Reviewed by Jeff Kalis in issue: July/2010
Ar Puro
The music of Guinea-Bissau – a tiny wedge of mangroves and jungle hidden between the borders of Senegal and Guinea...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2010
