Reviews
Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955-69)
Encouraged by an Indonesian government keen to engender ideas of national identity in the newly independent country, a raft of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: January/February/2023
Malk
Given the pheno¬menal international success of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunu-pingu's 2008 solo album, the blind Aboriginal singer's earlier work has sometimes...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Path of Seven Colors
Listening to this groundbreaking album on the day the news reveals that Haiti’s president has been assassinated by a group...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2021
Live in Bamako
There's a certain emotional urgency that can only be delivered by a live album. Live in Bamako, Oumar Konaté's fourth...
Reviewed by Leander Hobbs in issue: June/2018
Mud Doll
Single-handedly produced, recorded, arranged, mixed and mastered by British talent Niraj Chag, this is ambitiously lofty (if occasionally bombastic) cinematic...
Reviewed by Jon Mitchell in issue: November/2015
Crossharbour
The album cover shows a young five-piece band posed on the ‘blade of light’ Millennium Bridge linking the Tate Modern...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2014
The Song of the Banjo
After a six-year hiatus, the banjo-picker, composer, Harvard graduate, former investment banker and record-label founder Alison Brown has released The...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2016
Original
Bobby Osborne's latest album is an engaging compendium of tunes by some of Memphis' finest songwriters, from the 86-year-old high-lonesome...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2017
The Best of Bonga
Listening to this outstanding compilation makes me wonder why ageing singer Bonga isn't more celebrated in English–speaking world music circles....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Songs Doc Didn't Sing
Arthel ‘Doc’ Watson, the legendary guitarist and singer-songwriter from Deep Gap, North Carolina, possessed a uniquely compelling vocal instrument. Smoky...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2021
