Reviews
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
Griot Blues
Mighty Mo Rodgers & Baba Sissoko
The septuagenarian black American bluesman Mighty Mo Rodgers and the Malian griot Baba Sissoko met on tour in Lithuania in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2018
State and Ancientry
They've played together as a duo for a decade now. But these former Kerfuffle members keep busy: Sam Sweeney is...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2012
Handmade Tales
Based in Denmark but with roots in traditional Irish music, Manchester-born John Pilkington (guitar, bouzouki and vocals), with Danes Louise...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2019
