Reviews
Afrika Festival: Live in Hertme 2
Orchestre Les Mangelepa & Dieuf-Dieul de Thies
The second CD to be released of live recordings from the excellent annual Afrika Festival in Hertme in the Netherlands...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2018
What Heat
I did a double-take upon hearing that the world-fusion group Bokanté was planning a project with the Metropole Orkest. Already...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2018
One Life to Live
The latest in the excellent Doctor Bird reissue series is the sole LP that was released by Jamaican singer Phyllis...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2018
La Mentirosa
Pop, world, rock and indigenous folk aren't tidied up into pigeonholes in Italy. With her third release, Italian singer-songwriter Flo...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2018
Ankerdram
Here we have a good example of the old adage about not judging a book by its cover. The photo...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: December/2018
Music of Southern & Northern Laos
Sound recordist Laurent Jeanneau has spent years travelling among the ethnic minority cultures of Laos and Cambodia. This two-CD set...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: December/2018
O Turno da Noite
In the late 19th century, groups of college students in Portugal started to get together in large musical ensembles, celebrating...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2018
Quebra-Cabeça
Four albums in and the juggernaut that is São Paulo's Bixiga 70 powers on with added conviction. Since their debut,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2018
