Reviews
Punk Islands
For Indian Ocean music aficionados, M’Toro Chamou of Mayotte is no new kid on the block. Since 1998, we have...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: June/2016
Milton Nascimento: Original Album Series
Sensing the way the rapt audience on the live album Amigo (1996) hangs on the singer’s every utterance underlines just...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2013
Taranta Container
Led by Lecce-born singer and author Alessandro Coppola, Nidi d'Arac have mingled traditional repertoires from Salento in south-east Italy with...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2011
Ya Balad
Bachar Mar-Khalifé comes from one of Lebanon's most eminent musical families: his father is the internationally renowned singer Marcel Khalifé;...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: December/2015
Trumpet King Zeal Onyia Returns
When Louis Armstrong toured West Africa in 1961, he dubbed Onyia ‘the highlife hep cat of Nigerian jazz trumpet.’ One...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2019
Dhaalu Raa
The Maldives would be hard put to find a better soundtrack for its 50th-anniversary independence celebrations next year than this....
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: October/2014
Strange Birds in Paradise
Subtitled A West Papuan Soundtrack: Music Can Rise Above Tyranny, this recording provides the audio backing to a recent documentary...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Invocación
Some aficionados of Latin American music can listen to the swaying rhythms of salsa or the rippling beats of son...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2015
The Ultimate Guide to Scottish Folk
The third in a series of Ultimate Guide collections, following Spanish and Irish editions, this two-CD set traces the development...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
North Wind
Flying Down Thunder & Rise Ashen
When Flying Down Thunder and Rise Ashen released their first opus, 2011’s One Nation, with its mix of Aboriginal chants...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: October/2013
