Reviews
Jamaica Folk Trance Possession: Mystic Music from Jamaica, Roots of Rastafari 1939-1961
This two-CD set is no less than a historic document, among the most important anthologies of Jamaican audio ever assembled....
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: October/2013
An Dà Là – The Two Days
After three years of near-constant touring, this six-piece band’s third album finds Ewen Henderson taking over lead vocals from now-departed...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2017
Los Hijos de la Montaña
Following the success in 2016 of two collaborative albums – with novelty Smiths/Morrissey coverists Mexrissey and the more vital Tucson-based...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2017
Between Us…
Anoushka Shankar & Metropole Orkest with Jules Buckley & Manu Delago
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar here joins forces with the Netherlands-based Metropole Orkest and handpan performer Manu Delago on a purely instrumental...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: August/September/2022
An Introduction to June Tabor	
June Tabor was a student at Oxford (and appeared on University Challenge, no less), and has worked as both a...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2018
The Watchmaker's Wife
This is a highly anticipated third album from the double-bassist and fine vocalist Miranda Sykes and mandolin maestro Rex Preston....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2016
El Canto del Viento
In 1965, the celebrated Argentinian folk artist Atahualpa Yupanqui published El Canto del Viento, a collection of proems that touched...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2020
Je Suis Africain
Reviewing the last will and testament of recently departed artists can sometimes be difficult with sentiment clouding critical judgement and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2019
Radio Vietnam
Belonging to Sublime Frequencies’ locale-specific radio collage series, Radio Vietnam is a ‘plunderphonics’ album: that's to say, the mashed-up audio...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: July/2015
Mazel
The Algerian group Democratoz mix rai and Gnawa with reggae, rock and jazz. Their debut album, Mazel, shows that it...
Reviewed by Maria Ezzitouni in issue: October/2020
