Reviews
12 Inches of Dub
During the late 1970s, the Jamaican music scene was completely reconfigured when aspiring producer Henry ‘Junjo’ Lawes began working with...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: March/2020
Josef Josef
Eric Slabiak, the driving force behind Josef Josef, was for many years part of Les Yeux Noirs alongside his brother...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: March/2020
Líquido
Opening with ‘Triunfal’, a typically lyrical, mood-swinging Astor Piazzolla number, this UK-based quintet set out the stall of their second...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2020
Tàradh
Although the quartet have been making music together since 2006, this is Simon Tacker's Ritmata's debut album. It is worth...
Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: March/2020
Magic Nights
Fifty years after his debut LP, Christ Moore's latest solo offering sees the Irish icon trawling though his live back...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2020
Les Bateaux
Malian guitarist and singer Mamadou Kelly is a graduate of the bands of both Ali Farka Touré and Afel Bocoum,...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020
Lååje – Dawn
Marja Mortensson & Daniel Herskedal
Marja Mortensson – winner of a Spellemannprisen (the Norwegian Grammy Award) in 2018 – writes ‘we could only ever become...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2020
Mizu
It's with an illustrious career behind him – on screen, stage and airwaves – that Code Sangala now offers us...
Reviewed by Nick Hann in issue: March/2020
The Silver Messengers
When one hears of Cape Verdean roots music mingled with jazz it is hard not to shudder with trepidation. The...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2020
Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu (1972-1991)
Imagine Somalia without suicide bombers and the murderous, al-Qaeda-linked militants of al-Shabaab. Picture instead Mogadishu as a part city in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2020
