Reviews
Chants Mystiques d’Algérie
Four years on from Renyate, her tribute to great, if sometimes marginal, Algerian female singers such as Meriem Fekkai, Fadela...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: April/2018
Altur Mur
You know that bit in From Dusk till Dawn when the film goes from kidnap story to vampire flick with...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2022
So Much to Defend
As a certain Nobel Prize-winning songwriter once wrote, ‘people are crazy, times are strange’ and that has rarely been so...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2017
Inspired by Chance
Their 2014 album Tall Tales and Misadventures saw Limerick quintet Goitse up the ante with a set marked by variety,...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2016
Vilda Rosor
The photo of Maria Kalaniemi in the CD booklet tells you exactly what this recording is like. The Finnish queen...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2011
The Road
I first came across Mamak Khadem when I reviewed her solo album Jostojoo in 2008. A couple of years later,...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2016
Lysbærer
Lysbærer could easily be the soundtrack to any of the popular Viking series available on our screens and it’s the...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: May/2022
The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of the Black British Experience
The title tells us of this album’s focus, but nothing quite prepares us for the introduction: spoken word written by...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: November/2022
Kangaroo Dance
In Congo's Lingala language the term nzong-nzing (or zong-zing) refers to any kind of additional work activity. In musical terms...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2020
Myriad Road
The jazz album is often the second-last refuge of a career on the slide (reggae generally being the final resort...
Reviewed by David Hutcheon in issue: June/2016
