Reviews
Desert to Douala
Pulo NDJ is a project that broadcasts from the musical midpoint between N'Djamena, Chad and New York. DJs Nickodemus and...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2019
Madremonte
Madremonte is the debut album from the Europe-based Colombian duo, Jaguar. The title of the album makes reference to an...
Reviewed by Jenna Mackle in issue: December/2021
Olorum
Given the current situation in Brazil, you cannot help but trip on the words Mateus Aleluia sings in the opening...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2020
Bread and Jam
If your taste leans toward finely cra.ed, casually philosophical, quirkily upbeat acoustic roots music with a dash of global funk,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2020
Tales From Across the Water
Griselda Sanderson | Griselda Sanderson & Ricardo de Noronha
Multi-instrumentalist Griselda Sanderson's third instrumental album, following 2008's Harpaphonics, and 2015's Radial, offers a musical hand of friendship and connection...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2023
Angola Soundtrack – The Unique Sound from Luanda 1968-1976
With its colonial links to Portugal, it is unsurprising that the music of Angola bears remarkable similarities to rhythms heard...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
African Tree
I wish I could say that this album lives up to the artist’s laudable idea of planting 500 trees in...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2013
Oliver's Cinema
Eric Vloeimans’ Oliver's Cinema
‘For the elderly’ and ‘music to be given a wide berth’ – this is what the young Eric Vloeimans used...
Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: July/2014
Queen City Jubilee
Seriously solid traditional bluegrass music, freshly interpreted and rendered with passion and precision for 21st-century ears; that's the formula used...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2018
