Reviews
The Right Combination
Joel Savoy, Jesse Lege & the Cajun Country Revival
Joel Savoy (pronounced the Cajun French way, ‘Joelle Savoie’) has become a central figure in the ‘Acadian Uprising’, a second-generation...
Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: July/2011
20 Years: The Best of The Ukrainians 1991-2011
In the early 90s The Ukrainians enjoyed a large following and solid music press support. Largely forgotten since then (at...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2011
A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
From Radio 4's Tweet of the Day to Sam Lee's nocturna nightingale sessions, ornithology has gone mainstream. Sadly, the renewed...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2020
Braziliance!
‘First came Gilberto, then Jobim, and now MARCOS VALLE BRAZILIANCE!’ runs the breathless blurb on the original sleeve of this...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: April/2020
Efekt Motla
Recorded in Havana's EGREM studios (the birthplace of many a classic Cuban album) and released halfway across the globe in...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: March/2020
Habibi: Algérie de ma Jeunesse
What a charming CD this is, evoking an alluring world of white linen jackets, pencil moustaches, fez hats and nightclubs...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Rewilding
Listening to the third solo album from composer and guitarist Richard Durrant invites in a gentle English pastoral scene. Tours...
Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: January/2021
Makes a King
The Very Best are a duo, Johan Hugo and Esau Mwamwaya, who met in London's Hackney. They won a good...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2015
Soô
Perhaps it was recording 2012’s Brothers in Bamako with the American bluesman Eric Bibb that persuaded Habib Koité it was...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2014
