Reviews
Mango Mangüé
The Vampisoul label is a gem, constantly unearthing surprises, and this fabulous collection rediscovers the Cuban singer– composer El Gran...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: June/2010
Remixes 2008-2017
Daniel Haaksman has been a vital figure in the creation and development of ‘tropical’ or ‘global bass’ music for the...
Reviewed by Jordan Barnes in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
The Unknown Spanish Levant Vol 2: Egypt
An academic in ethnomusicology as well as a musician and composer who has been performing since he was a teenager...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2023
Pastourelle
Montréal percussionist Daniel Bellegarde’s second solo album continues his fascination with the music of Haiti and the French West Indies,...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2022
Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour)
Egyptian multi-instrumentalist Maurice Louca is known for navigating between electronic dance music, crossovers with Egypt’s contemporary maghraganat music, participating in...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: December/2021
Where We Are
This second album by Bristolian Afrobeat specialists No Go Stop benefits from a powerful production, the 12-piece band tightly arranged...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2022
Queen of the Whirl
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution
‘I've given blow jobs on couches to men who don't want me anymore’ – that first line of Eliza Carthy's...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2022
Jigdoll
The album begins with a soft low hum, then lyrical vocal layers build up, like cumulus clouds across a twilight...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2016
Dos Gigantes de la Música Cubana
Eliades Ochoa & Alejandro Almenares
The ringing guitar and tres duets between Eliades Ochoa and Compay Segundo, first heard on 1986's Chanchaneando, went on to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2018
The Liberty to Choose
The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, compiled by Ralph Vaughan Williams and A L Lloyd, was published in 1959....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
