Reviews
Psychedelic Train: Expanded Edition
Derrick Harriott & The Crystalites
Derrick Harriott is a major figure in Jamaican music, his career as a producer, songwriter, label owner and singer having...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
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A[ch]a-I-Viat[s]a
Move out of the way: this heady mix of Balkan tunes, electronic beats and myriad international influences is crossover music...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Xamle
Growing up as a dancer in Senegal and reinventing himself as a singer in the UK, Batch Gueye is starting...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Mames Babegenush With Strings
This fifth helping of Babegenush is as joyous, sorrowful and deftly produced as the group's previous albums, and this time...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Banjul-London
Originally from the Gambia, but resident in London since 2002, Jally Kebba Susso is a kora player but he's not...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
A Pocket of Wind Resistance
Karine Polwart with Pippa Murphy
From the first note to the final, pulsing heartbeat, this is not merely an album of songs but a full...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Bone Reader
Washington DC isn't an obvious place to look for Afrobeat. Yet in the land of suits and carpeted corridors, Chopteeth...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Escapology
As a bansuri (flute) rises from a bed of flamenco guitar on album opener ‘Escapology’, any listeners who last heard...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
