Reviews
Rough Guide to the Music of New Orleans
New Orleans may still rightfully lay claim to the mantle ‘the birthplace of jazz’, but the only track that comes...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2012
Echoes of Japan
Many Japanese musicians have a seemingly innate ability to enthusiastically adopt music of other cultures, and to take them to...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2019
Ambush
Having first cut his teeth as a percussionist in Remmy Ongala's legendary Orchestre Super Matimila, Ambush is Saidi Kanda's first...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Lanmou Lanmou
Dowdelin (a play on the word ‘dawdling’) are a four-piece band based in Lyon, France, whose name is a bit...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: April/2022
Diamonoye Tiopité L'Epoque de I'Evolution
Idrissa Diop & Cheikh Tidiane Tall
In 1974, a millionaire Senegalese businessman named Ndiouga Kebe opened Sahm, the first shopping complex in Dakar. It had its...
Reviewed by Jenny Cathcart in issue: June/2011
Rhymes With Orange
An enthusiastic duo from Bristol comprised of guitarist and singer Jon Lewis and singer and percussionist Jah-Man Aggrey, originally from...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Hunter
Christina Alden & Alex Patterson
Locked down doesn’t mean imaginations are locked up. In Hunter, song inspiration is global, despite being set down and sung...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: July/2021
Percussion Around the World
There's a feast of randomness here: a loose compilation of tracks in a multitude of styles whose music ranges from...
Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: April/2016
Falling
The Fire Doves, a UK duo consisting of the two singers Sebastiana Black and Birgitta Campbell, one playing accordion and...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2018
Zipserim
At the Czech Music Crossroads conference in Ostrava, one of the most surprising and interesting groups was the Mojše Band...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
