Reviews
Dreaming
Though her star turn at the recent Scotland versus Brazil football friendly didn't, alas, garner her nearly as much press...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Mama Funny Day
Was Manu Chao hugely influential or so eclectic that it's hard not to nick some aspect of his style? A...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
What Makes Bob Holler
There can be few outfits whose name describes their modus operandi quite as fittingly as Hot Club Of Cowtown. If...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
World Ballads
This is the latest in Network’s usually excellent two-disc ‘longbox’ series. A decade or so ago, the similarly packaged Desert...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2010
Wedding Me Ware Wo
AJ Holmes & The Hackney Empire
A five-piece London crew with a taste for ponchos, fringes and clashing African textiles, AJ Holmes & The Hackney Empire...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2013
Number One Bus
Dressed in griot-chic and wielding his gimbri like a Fender Stratocaster, Nuru Kane comes on like a trans-Saharan cross between...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2010
Dog With A Rope
Quantic Presenta: Flowering Inferno
He might be plain old Will Holland to the authorities, but the man known as Quantic has burned his stage...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
The Road to Damascus
Followers of Nick Page, former frontman of Transglobal Underground and serial musical collaborator, might be surprised by his latest project....
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: October/2010
Kasbatek
‘Gnawa funk’, a blend of sounds from ‘the Orient, from the Maghreb, chaabi melodies and Gnawa rhythms’ is the proclamation...
Reviewed by Nik Hann in issue: April/2024
