Reviews
Simultaneous Flight Movement
One musician, a violin, a recorder and a lighthouse are hardly the typical ingredients of an album. Laura Cannell's Simultaneous...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2017
Mali Foli Coura
This appears to be a studio session, cut live without overdubs or technical tampering. It's a fierce modern take on...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Every Man for Every Man
Ghetto Priest, best known as the Rastafarian frontman for electronica/fusion legends Asian Dub Foundation, has released this solo album as...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: November/2017
Djine Bora
On their third album this five-piece band from Bamako in Mali have completely mastered their astonishing fusion of traditional and...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: August/September/2022
Papa Lemon: New Orleans Ukulele Maestro & Tent Show Troubadour
The one thing we are not told in the evocative and often hilarious liner notes of this album, is whether...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2014
Bad for Business
Welcome to the Nashville living room of Adrian and Meredith Krygowski, where they and a few friends have worked on...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2021
Nigeria Freedom Sounds!
Subtitled ‘Popular Music and the Birth of Independent Nigeria,’ these 23 tracks were all recorded more than half a century...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
Do You Know a Place Called Flekkeröy?
Scandinavia in recent years has provided a home for many fine African musicians and the Gambian-born Denmark-based kora player Dawda...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022
