Reviews
Fatou
Just when you thought Mali couldn't possibly produce any more extraordinary new musical stars, here's another. Born in the Ivory...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: October/2011
This Land is Your Land
With a generous 50 tracks, this release is as good a retrospective as it is possible to squeeze onto two...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2011
The Works
John Spiers and Jon Boden are best-known now as the musical masterminds at the heart of folk-burlesque big-band Bellowhead. They...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2011
The Beginners Guide to Timba
Not one, not two but three CDs destined to send lovers of timba – that hard-edged derivative of Cuban salsa...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011
Blues Menessen
Born and raised in Cameroon half a century ago, but resident in France for the last couple of decades, Tchakounté's...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2011
Pinpeat Music and Songs
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this music is that it exists at all. During the Khmer Rouge's reign of...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: October/2011
Folly
Listening to Folly, I'm reminded of Tunng's absorption with the childlike, with a particularly English sense of innocence mixed with...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2011
Malta's Lost Voices
Now that's what I call a CD set. A foot-tall board-encased booklet, shaped like an old gramophone loudspeaker trumpet, is...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2011
Live in France
Who would ever have thought that two Mexican guitarists who busked the streets of Dublin would turn out to be...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2011
