Reviews
Keleketla!
Born out of an encounter between Ruth Daniel of the charity In Place of War and Johannesburg's Keleketla! Library in-house...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Dedans le Sud de la Louisiane
Oh what a gem this package is, containing a 47-minute DVD of a documentary shot in rural Louisiana in the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Cycle
The themes of recurrence and circularity stand out in Hazel Askew, Rowan Rheingans and Hannah James’ third album as a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2016
Oj Tak!
Frightened of Polish music by the scraping fiddles and raw vocals of the Warsaw Village Band? Then maybe the mellower,...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2014
The Rough Guide to World Music
It's a quarter of a century since Phil Stanton's World Music Network label released its debut compilation, the first Rough...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2018
Tàradh
Although the quartet have been making music together since 2006, this is Simon Tacker's Ritmata's debut album. It is worth...
Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: March/2020
Solarius Gamma
Florian Doucet is a producer, guitarist and graphic designer formerly of Afro-Colombian party starters La Chiva Gantiva, but his masked...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2021
Shapes in Twilights of Infinity
ESINAM is a Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist who creates cosmic soundscapes by fusing intricate rhythms, silvery flute, ethereal vocals, African percussion, spoken...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: December/2021
Thalassa
Oluf Dimitri Røe, Family and Guests
As their hybrid names imply, the Røe family are of mixed Norwegian and Greek background – specifically from Trondheim, and...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: May/2017
