Reviews
Pelerinaj
Vodou priest, actor, singer and choreographer Erol Josué spent two decades living in Paris and New York before returning home...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2022
Howay the Lasses
This striking 11-track collection from Howay the Lasses – a quartet featuring Annie Ball (vocals, accordion, piano), Bronwen Davies-Jones (vocals),...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2023
Ruminantia
From their beginnings as an enjoyable, slightly quirky, folk-inflected early music band, Horses Brawl have developed into a very different...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2012
A Jamaican In Cairo
There are those who will tell you that we are witnessing the sonic equivalent of Francis Fukuyama’s ‘end of history’...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2011
Pass the Knowledge
While Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert takes credit for coining the word reggae, and Bob Marley is widely considered reggae’s only true...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
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
