Reviews
Introducing…
The Introducing series has brought some fabulous artists to wider attention. Its latest is a digital-only release of producer and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2012
Roots of OK Jazz: Congo Classics 1955-56
This is a reissue of a collection originally released in 1993 as part of the excellent ‘Zaire Classics’ series. Since...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2010
The Village
Although most of the compositions on this CD are based on traditional Zimbabwean songs, it would be fair to say...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2013
Agüeros
One accusation that cannot be fired at Colombia’s Sonoras Mil, the project of Felipe Gómez Ossa, is a lack of...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2022
NEWiD
This sixth album from the traditional Welsh outfit also sees the unveiling of a six-piece line-up and a new singer....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2016
Dimbambe: Identité
Affable yet determined, velvet-smooth yet troubled. Such colourful, perhaps contradictory epithets could describe the Cameroonian Mario Combo and his fourth...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Skycatcher
Hasidic Jewish crossovers aside, New York’s reggae scene has become trademarked by large, brass heavy dub groups who use guest...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Impromptu
Angelo Debarre, born in St-Denis, France, starte d playing guitar at the age of eight. A member of the Manouche...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
White Night
The ‘white night’ of this album's title comes from an anonymous Japanese poem about a cuckoo that sings all the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
