Reviews
Deadly Hearts
A tribute album of cover versions of iconic Australian indigenous-oriented songs that have impacted on younger Aboriginal musicians, Deadly Hearts...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2018
Gabru Panjab Dha
There is more JK than meet the eye. At first glance, the blinged-up boy who graces the cover of this...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
KELD
You Are Wolf is the name behind which hides Kerry Andrew, a singer and composer who is part of an...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2018
Honkytonk Heartbreaker
This is the second full-length album by New Brunswick, Nova Scotia-based bluegrass barnstormers The Backyard Devils. Released in the US...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2017
Babi
Touareg music hasn't always been about electric guitars and the Tamashek quartet Al Bilali Soudan (an ancient name for the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2023
Nakibembe Embaire Group
Nakibembe is a small village in Uganda's Busoga Kingdom, where the residents preserve the local tradition of playing and dancing...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/September/2023
Jolof
An album of complexity, sensitivity and smarts, Jolof takes its name from the kingdom that spanned West Africa – the...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/September/2023
The Ones Ahead
As he entered his seventies, the classically-trained Canada-based singer/composer Glenn-Copeland was lapsing into dignified retirement. Then he made public his...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2023
Kolkhozoy Traktor
If you’re a fan of the great festival-pleasing, throat-singing Yat-Kha, then this should be on your radar. Shono's founder, Alexander...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: August/September/2023
