Reviews
Mande Kulu
This is a sequel to 2015's Sangoyi, with the core collaboration between Malian residents Samba Diabaté and Vincent Zanetti (both...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2017
Room of Wonders
Where music explorer Bela Fleck once trod unknown ground with the banjo, taking it into jazz and popular music, Canadian...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2011
Tepid on My Trippin’ Heels
Naomi Randall is a Cambridge native who debuted in 2013 with an album she shared with Tom Gaskall. Randall continued...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2020
Old Chairs to Mend
David Gibb's second solo album, There Are Birds in My Garden [reviewed in #79] revealed the adventurous musical mind of...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012
Rádio Kriola
The idea could have proved a little too ambitious, but the truth is that in a single grasp Catarina Dos...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2018
Grá agus Bás
As a signee of the powerhouse American label Nonesuch, Donnacha Dennehy rubs shoulders with world music luminaries like the Buena...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2011
Esencia
Studio-recorded mariachi needs to be kept loose and as live-sounding as possible to work at all. With its female and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2019
Les Rives
There’s a history to this project. The prolific guitarist Titi Robin has long collaborated with Gypsy, Indian, and qawwali artists....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2012
Keep Me Waiting
If your tastes run to traditional bluegrass and folk music with a nod to contemporary Americana, you'll find Chicago-based Big...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2017
