Reviews
Music of Southern & Northern Laos
Sound recordist Laurent Jeanneau has spent years travelling among the ethnic minority cultures of Laos and Cambodia. This two-CD set...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: December/2018
Amazones Power
Les Amazones d'Afrique are the pan-African female supergroup that wowed the crowds at WOMAD in 2016, commanding attention with the...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2020
Our Island
When the debut Small Island Big Song album was released in 2018, it was rightly hailed as a mini masterpiece....
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2022
Actitud Calle
With a Banksy-style graphic on the cover, a photo from the commemorative marchofthe 40th anniversary of the 1968 student massacre...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Andalusian Love Song
David Broza & The Andalusian Orchestra Ashkelon
The most striking thing about this release is that it celebrates the often-overlooked Sephardic Jewish tradition of music that has...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2016
Squirrel Hunting
The debut album by Hot Rock Pilgrims proves at least one thing: given enough talent and determination, a pan-European quintet...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
La Mujer Que Yo Quiero
The story of how Israeli singer and guitarist David Broza's new album La Mujer Que Yo Quiero came about is...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2023
Cohesion
The third full-length offering from London-based producer Masaaki Yoshida sees him turn his hand to material inspired by Bollywood soundtracks...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2018
The Rough Guide to Peru Rare Groove
Those who come to this cheerful, varied collection of rare, overlooked or forgotten gems from various vaults with expectations of...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2016
Movimento
You could say that Aline Frazão is the Mayra Andrade of Angola – a singer who has made a concerted...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2015
