Reviews
#NuNairobi
Not just the banner for a new wave of artists, creatives and entrepreneurs that are proud to call the Kenyan...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2019
Huam
A sense of care taken is the abiding impression left by this trio of Scottish Highland and Island folk musicians....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2020
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The second album from one of today's top young Scottish folk acts shares its arresting name with a well-known piobaireachd...
Reviewed by Susan Wilson in issue: June/2010
Néo
The title of this recording, the first album of original compositions by Japanese-American instrumentalist Kaoru Watanabe, can loosely be translated...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2016
Tango Mediterraneo
Paolo Karim Gozzo, a singer-songwriter with Sicilian and Moroccan origins, appeared on the Italian X Factor franchise in 2009. He...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2023
Aberaeron Sunset
What, I was asking myself, would a crossover South Asian/ UK album thought up in a Welsh caravan sound like?...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Great Expectation
A folk style with ensemble vocals, banjo and distinct African percussion, mento was Jamaica's leading style from the 1920s onwards,...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Lus
Cesaria Evora may have put the Cape Verde islands on the musical map, but the next generation of artists from...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Cool Funeral Beer: Day 1 – The Creation of the Final Ancestor Shrine
This is the first instalment of a remarkable three-part project of music inspired by traditional funeral ceremonies in Ghana. The...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2023
Arriva la Banda!
The music of Salento’s BandAdriatica is redolent of endless voyages around the winding Adriatic Sea on a ship where different...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Apr/May/2013
