Reviews
Mmabatho
Singer, songwriter and producer Tomeletso Sereetsi is something of a hero in his homeland as an exponent of the unique...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2025
Manos Panamericanos
The story of this unlikely duo, Larry & Joe, is a powerful indictment of US immigration. A renowned musician and...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: January/2025
A Ukrainian Wedding
Cappella Romana & Nadia Tarnawski
The order of a modern wedding has become standardised across the world: an engagement followed by a wedding ceremony with...
Reviewed by Yurii Bereza in issue: January/2025
Giorgos Katsaros
This is both a fabulous historical document and a musical treat from the rebetika heyday of Greek émigrés to the...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: January/2025
Golden Age
Any album that cites influences as diverse as swamp jazz, Malian desert rock, Peru’s psychedelic chicha music and ‘master of...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: January/2025
symbiont
On Spider Tales, his 2020 debut album, Jake Blount blazed a trail through the forest of roots music in general...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2024
Wirlmarni
Indigenous Walmatjarri elder Kankawa Nagarra (Olive Knight) hails from the remote Aboriginal community of Wangkatjunka, in Australia’s northwestern Kimberley region....
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2024
Àbòr Édín
Recorded between Accra and Oregon ‘and various hotel rooms on the road,’ Àbòr Édín – it translates from Afroso’s Gãdangmé...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2024
