Reviews
Cape Verde
Those who’ve had their fill of the new Cape Verde artists like Mayra Andrade and Tcheka and are yearning for...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2015
The Trance of Seven Colors
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders
The mystical Sufi music of the Moroccan Gnawa people has long been a source of fascination for jazz musicians attracted...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2020
Saudade
The North American duo of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton have long mixed world music flavours into their electronic dance...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2014
Songs Without Authors Vol 1
Every emerging folk singer likes to think their interpretation offers the listener a chance to hear, to think, something new:...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: November/2021
Illustrated Short Stories
Twin sisters Charlotte and Laura Carrivick grew up playing music together and have been performing professionally since 2006. While mostly...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/February/2023
The Ox and the Ax
It's the little things that count. At first, you might think there's not much to the music of this highly...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: May/2018
Essiebons Special 1973-1984: Ghana Music Power House
The recently departed Ghanaian producer and label-owner Dick Essilfie-Bondzie was digitising his recording vaults right up until his death, discovering...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/February/2022
LateNightTales
Back in 2013, the hugely popular DJ, Bonobo, included a song from a then unknown Houston psych-funk group on his...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: January/2021
Texas Gypsy Fire
Japanese dub, Taiwanese rap, Mexican ska… we’ve heard them all. And, in the mix-and-match free-for-all of world music, there are...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Ommadawn
Examples of world music before it was called world music keep turning up in the most unlikely places, and here’s...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
