Reviews
Alma Enamorada
Fifteen more corridos (narrative songs) from the ‘Godfather’ of the genre. Backed by the accordion and polka rhythms of a...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/2025
100% Sahara Guitar
Etran de l’Aïr’s job is to make people move, playing at the weddings of the working-class Touareg of Agadez, Niger....
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2024
Antologia, Vol 2
Les Disques Bongo Joe and crate-digger DJ Tom B seem to be on a mission to bring wider attention to...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2024
Àbòr Édín
Recorded between Accra and Oregon ‘and various hotel rooms on the road,’ Àbòr Édín – it translates from Afroso’s Gãdangmé...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2024
Horizon Unlimited
There’s no question that the world needed this beloved 1979 album by Nigeria’s twin Lijadu Sisters back in the spotlight....
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: November/2024
Heavier Yet (Lays the Crownless Head)
Becoming leader of Egypt 80, his legendary father Fela’s band, at the tender age of 14, Seun Kuti has always...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: November/2024
Woodland
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Precision, persistence and grace in the face of adversity, grief and destruction are at the heart of this impeccably intricate...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2024
Milimo
Niwel Tsumbu is certainly unique. Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he ‘grew up on the rhythms of soukous...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2024
Lost Things Returning
This is the second outing with the Cornwall-based, Birmingham-raised alt-folk duo Angeline Morrison and Nick Duffy. Following their debut, which...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2024
Sweet Release
‘These strings, this drum, from another world they come, bringing songs of sweet release,’ Adams sings over a thunderous Rachid...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2024
