Reviews
Asì Seguimos Andando
Named after a mountain in Argentina's north-west, this impressively talented all-female trio pay homage in everything they do to that...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2020
Five Rivers
For more than 30 years, the British-born Indian singer Najma Akhtar has operated largely beneath the radar, releasing a series...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2020
Baba Toulenga
I'd wager that very few musicians under scrutiny in these pages, in this issue or any other, have graced the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011
Une Vie Formidable
‘Oh, for a beaker full of the warm South!’ It would not surprise me were I to learn that Keats...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2011
Ouaga Affair: Hard Won Sound Of The Upper Volta 1974-1978
Ouaga Affair collects 15 tracks from the musical boom of the 1970s Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). But to see...
Reviewed by Ollie Sanders in issue: June/2010
3 Sessions in a Greenhouse
On recent albums, Lucas Santtana has become a modern troubadour, channelling pop, protest song and natural charm, so it’s easy...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2021
Message on the Wind
Thursday Island is a small place – only 3.5 square kilometres in size – lying off the northern tip of...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2013
Portraits 30
The Meto Brothers Band | The Sowa Musical Dynasty of Piątkowa
Polish Radio's series of releases called MuzykaZródel (Sources of Polish Folk Music) are a superb introduction to the country's regional...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2015
Simultonality
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Simultonality features the Moroccan gimbri (lute), its bass fashioned from the skin of a camel's neck stretched across a wooden...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2017
Naquêl Tempo Câ Tinha
Elísio Gomes & Papá de Betina hail from Santa Catarina on Cape Verde's island of Santiago. Both were in their...
Reviewed by Bram Posthumus in issue: May/2023
