Reviews
Nuba Nova
Hamdi Benani, Mehdi Haddab & Speed Caravan
Mehdi Haddab’s rai-punk outfit Speed Caravan have somewhat escaped my attention since their brilliant 2008 debut Kalashnik Love, but this...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
The Rough Guide to Country Blues
Give this album the roughly five minutes it takes to run down the first two tracks – the deeply harrowing...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2019
Homing In
This is the second album by the poet Ian McMillan and his orchestra – five musicians led by accordion player...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2011
Basant
Johnny Kalsi has been running the Dhol Foundation now for more than 25 years, while also banging his double-sided Punjabi...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2017
Delta Bound
‘In New Orleans,’ Holly Devon’s liner notes suggest, ‘memories linger in the humid air.’ Under the aegis of guitarist and...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2022
Rangatira
A collaboration that pairs various traditional Maori instruments (ngā taonga pūoro) with percussion, Rangatira brings together two respected New Zealand...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2021
My Design, On Others' Lives
Based in New Zealand's music capital Wellington, Estère Dalton is a young producer- musician who's created her own bedroom-based ‘electric...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Boom
Sometimes musical fusions just don’t work, and this is a prime example. Partnering the Spanish producer, and founder of Ojos...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2015
Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects of the Caucasus
The Caucasus mountains on the borders of Europe and Asia are a dramatic mosaic of landscapes and cultures. Alongside the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
