Reviews
Quelbe!
Stanley & the Ten Sleepless Knights
A few years after Frémeaux's two-CD compilation Virgin Islands Quelbe and Calypso 1956-60, comes a new release from a contemporary...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: May/2016
Chamber Music
Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal
This hypnotic masterpiece from the French label No Format is another fine example of the label’s penchant for putting musicians...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Riptide
This Austin, Texas-based band specialise in a mix of contemporary and progressive jazz with music from the Arab and Turkish...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Tales from the Weeping Willow: Songs of Murder, Death and Sorrow
Traditional folk songs – they’ve got a body count to put gangsta rap to shame. Naomi Bedford has had a...
Reviewed by Tim Camming in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
A l’ Ombre du Grand Baobab
The Malian griot Mah Damba has lived in France for many years and her music reflects her cultural cosmo– politanism....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2011
What News
Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness
This is Roberts’ 12th solo album since 2001, and his fourth of purely traditional songs, following on from the excellent...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018
Alegria de Viver
Alegria de Viver is an entirely solo album by the esteemed Brazilian guitarist Lula Galvão. He is generally betterknown as...
Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: October/2019
Undersong
In the wild waters of the straits between the isles of Harris and North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2018
Louisiana Sun
Some years back, Mama Rosin, the high-octane punk Cajun combo from Switzerland, met Hipbone Slim & the Knee Tremblers, a...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
