Reviews
Tiga Tej Tibs
Dan Harper doesn’t heed conventional wisdom. You’re supposed to open an album with one of the strongest songs in your...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Malagasy Blues Song
Music and spirituality are intertwined in Madagascar. Lala Njava learned her warm, sonorous singing technique from the resident shaman in...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Guantanamera: The Essential Album
‘Ten years without Compay Segundo,’ says the sticker on the album cover, which is a slightly odd marketing slogan for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Pod
Released in 2004, the original Pod was the penultimate album from the dance fusion supergroup before they ceased putting out...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Miliki Sound
Mr Bongo’s Classic African Recordings series continues with a little-known Peter King set, originally released in the UK in 1975....
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Memories and Moments
Listening to Memories and Moments, Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott’s much-anticipated follow-up to last year’s live album, We’re Usually a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
¡Saoco! Vol 2
With its subtitle, Bomba, Plena and the Roots of Salsa in Puerto Rico 1955¬1967, this second big Vampisoul sampler tries...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
One and All
For years The Fisherman’s Friends entertained their mates, holidaymakers and most of all themselves, by singing shanties every week in...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Gold or Dust
This is the third album from the alt-folk, world music-infused eight-strong collective from Kent, and was conceived at the band’s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Habibi: Classics & Collaborations
Natacha Atlas’ back-catalogue has been open-cast mined in recent years, with both a Best Of and a cut-price box-set already...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
