Reviews
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
OVA
This is a bittersweet triumph from one of the world’s finest fusion bands. The Afro Celts were founded by Simon...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow 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
Curandero
The US/Mexican frontier is a hotspot of hope and anguish, drugs and guns, rednecks and refugees. Orkesta Mendoza, formed by...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2020
Pipers
I’m a big fan of the clarinet. Of all the wind instruments it has the widest and most varied range...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2020
IYA: Songs for the Mothers
For their fifth album, London's Afro-Cuban community choir build on their tradition of performing songs to the Orishas (Yoruba deities)...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2023
Maghreb Lyon
The role of Paris and Marseille in the production of North African music in France is well documented: less so...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2014
Uhamiaji
When a press release states that an album will redefine the boundaries of whatever style it purports to represent, you...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: November/2017
The Macalla Suite
Composed to commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, Michael Rooney’s The Macalla Suite is a compendium of folk...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2017
