Reviews
Keep Hauling (Music from the Movie)
Thirty years ago a group of friends – some actually fishermen – got together on the Platt (the hard ground...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2019
968 CR13
Massilia Sound System surged out of the 80s underground party scene in Marseille. They're the group that pretty much single-handedly...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2013
Sanguis Meus, Mama!
Ilkka Heinonen Trio | Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L
You’ve got to admire the Finns. They revive one of the world's most unpromising instruments – the jouhikko, a rather...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
I Speak Luganda
The endongo is an eight-stringed lyre from the area around the Great Lakes in East Africa. Joel Sebunjo has performed...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Karma
After Jambinai, Black String are the best known of the intriguing new batch of experimental folk bands from South Korea....
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2019
Santié Papang
Few female vocalists have successfully ventured into La Réunion's politically-charged maloya music. The Indian Ocean blues was initially banned by...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: March/2015
King Size Reggae
Having launched the careers of Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker and Bob Marley & the Wailers, producer Leslie Kong had an...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2019
Samaagam
Amjad Ali Khan & the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Samaagam, a Sanskrit word meaning ‘confluence’ or ‘flowing together’, is the title of a new concerto which brings together India's...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2011
Ifetayo
Soundway Records have an impressive catalogue of rare groove reissues, many of them from Africa. But although there are African...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2012
