Reviews
Obabes beMbube
The five Zimbabwean female singers who make up the a capella group Nobuntu deliver an uplifting and playful listening experience...
Reviewed by Franki Clemens in issue: April/2019
Jedba: Spiritual Music from Morocco
Abdesselam Damoussi & Nour Eddine
The brainchild of producer Abdesselam Damoussi and multi-instrumentalist Nour Eddine, this set of Moroccan Sufi music from across the kingdom...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2019
Alagbe
If it wasn't for the laidback, Portuguese vocals, you'd be convinced that this album came direct from Africa. In fact,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2019
Step Forward Youth
“The marriage of reggae and punk rock,” said Dave Hendley, reggae connoisseur and photographer of many a great album cover,...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: April/2019
Soul of My City
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra
From the gleeful rockabilly throb of ‘Let's Go Back in Time, Man’ via infectious celebrations of cross-dressing (‘Life is a...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2019
Estudando o Samba
You will find a lot written of Tom Zé, calling him everything from a ‘cultural cannibal’ to a ‘revolutionary anarchist,’...
Reviewed by Brian Taylor in issue: April/2019
Midnight and Closedown
After a wait of nearly four years the British folk scene's bravest experimenters are back with their fifth studio album,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2019
Karin
Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin
Armenian duduk (oboe) player Vardan Hovanissian and Belgian-Turkish singer and saz (lute) player Emre Gültekin recorded the beautiful album Adana...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2019
