Reviews
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
Turas 1980
Banish all thoughts of the New Age-accented, ambient-washed sound that made Clannad a crossover phenomenon following the attention-grabbing success of...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2018
Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan
Defining exactly what is or is not ‘avant-garde’ music is an impossible task, with not even close to a consensus...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: May/2021
Song til Nordavinden
Jo Asgeir Lie has, for many years, played a prominent role in the Norwegian folk scene. As a highly regarded...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2016
