Reviews
Bleu de Lune
This Franco-Algerian bunch of latter-day troubadours was discovered busking on the streets of Paris. Their live shows are renowned and...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2020
The Pace Setters
In 1981 Brian Eno travelled to Ghana to produce an album by the eight-piece Afro-funk band Edikanfo. Shortly after its...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2020
Work My Claim
Marking 30 years as a touring and recording musician, Brooks Williams offers up a collection of nine re-recorded, all-acoustic tracks...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2020
Uña y Carne
It's been 12 years since Juan Gómez ‘Chicuelo’ released his last solo album, Diapasión. In the interim he's worked as...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2020
Trompeteros
Oh, to have lived in Peru in the 70s. Well, perhaps not... what with military dictators, the Ancash quake and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2020
More Than One
From the very beginning of this album it is apparent that we are dealing with musicians as equally well-versed in...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2020
Viva Santa Liberata
For this album the Palermo-born, and politically concerned folk singer, guitarist and tambourine player Politi dives into the archives. The...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2020
Waterbound
The Norwich-based folk trio of Christina Alden, Alex Patterson and Noel Dashwood have been determinedly ‘homespun’ on their previous two...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2020
Ormenion
I loved this disc. It brings to the fore the lively musical traditions that straddle the border of northern Greece,...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2020
Nsie Nsie
Y-Bayani & Baby Naa & The Band of Enlightenment, Reason & Love
Ghanaian singers Y-Bayani and Baby Naa give their spin on African roots reggae on Nsie Nsie. Fusing reggae grooves with...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: June/2020
