Reviews
Digging the Underground Vol 1: The Nation Years
Right now, it's with rainbow-tinted nostalgia that we remember the good old bad days of the early 1990s, a time...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Sky Blue Love
Anyone interested in 70 minutes of rather clinical, polite dub reggae? OK, that's a little unfair, but there's something about...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Tambours Croisés: Chapter Two
This album comes, frustratingly, with very poor liner notes, which is infuriating as this CD is very good indeed. What...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Dakar Suite
Back in 2006, the German-born singer and jazz guitarist Leni Stern found herself performing at Mali's Festival in the Desert....
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Sharpener
The Hackney Colliery Band have achieved greater popularity than any other contemporary British brass band through regular performances and savvy...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Jardins Migrateurs
Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko
Ablaye Cissoko is a kora-playing Senegalese griot who has been invited to accompany the celebrated Montréal-based Iranian trio Constantinople. Kiya...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Day to Day
There are some parts of the African diaspora – like the US or Jamaica – that are well-known. But the...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Ganga Procession
Famous flautist Sylvain Barou has worked with Ronan Pellen (Istan Trio), Jacques Pellen (Offshore Quartet) and Prabhu Edouard (Thali Gang)...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Tres Luceros
Kevin Seddiki & Sandra Rumolino
Tango is the elephant in the room of this debut duo record – always present in spirit but rarely fully...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Up River Overseas
Old Salt are a six-piece collective of musicians from the US, Belgium, Sweden and Scotland who first came together at...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
