Reviews
Kasahwa: Early Singles
An integral part of the chimurenga revolution spearheaded by Thomas Mapfumo during Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, Stella Chiweshe recorded these eight...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2018
Jump Ups & Jollities
‘Junkerdash is a term we applied to our peculiar take on traditional acoustic mountain music, which is filtered through a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
A Tribute to Caetano Veloso
In Brazil and across the Latin American diaspora, Caetano Veloso is God. As a founding father of tropicalia, as a...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Ya Gotta Quit Kickin’ My Dog Around
Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music featured 84 tracks recorded between 1927 and 1932 and was first released in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2015
De Par en Par
This Swiss-based Argentinian singer-songwriter takes some of the moody melodrama of tango and a clod of the earthiness of her...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2022
Sirventés: Occitan Protest Songs
Manu Théron, Youssef Hbeisch & Grégory Dargent
Those familiar with the recordings by the Marseille group Lo Còr de la Plana over the past decade will recognise...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2015
The Thread
Two years on from their live debut, the 12-strong Band of Burns convened in the Scottish Highlands to put their...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2020
La Voz de la Zafra
Because Mercedes Sosa (1935-2009) achieved international recognition in her later years, she is popularly imagined as an ageless earth-mother with...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2013
Inspiration
Jah Wobble Presents: PJ Higgins
You wait and wait for a PJ Higgins album and then two come along at once. Although, while this Jah...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
