Reviews
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic India
This eclectic collection features established giants such as Asha Bhosle alongside relative unknowns. Opening with a 70s Bollywood number by...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: Apr/May/2015
Nsie Nsie
Y-Bayani & Baby Naa & The Band of Enlightenment, Reason & Love
Ghanaian singers Y-Bayani and Baby Naa give their spin on African roots reggae on Nsie Nsie. Fusing reggae grooves with...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: June/2020
Sikelela
If you saw the West End stage musical Umoja: Spirit of Togetherness, you will have already heard Amabutho, the seven...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
La Tradition Américaine
La Tradition Américaine is the second album by The Blue Dahlia, a pan-Atlantic project led by Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter and ukulele...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2018
Bullinn
Bullinn is the third album from the Norwegian Hardanger fiddler (and prize-winning fiddle maker) Ottar Kåsa, jazz musician Mattis Kleppen...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Live From Celtic Connections 2019
Nearly a quarter of a century on and this group is still corralled by Shetland fiddler Aly Bain and his...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2019
The River
The River is Napier's first solo album, and a rather intriguing and exciting one it is too. Napier is a...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2016
Tin Hinane
There’s a sharp comment in the liner notes of this debut album to the effect that the band Kel Asouf...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Into the Well
It is surely a testament to the staying power of The Poozies that, although the all-female British folk group formed...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2015
New Orleans Blues, Soul & Jazz Gumbo
Inspired by the success of the HBO TV series Treme, a drama serial set in New Orleans and brimming with...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2012
