Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy
Lively church music based on Ghanaian highlife traditions with a modern electric slant. Guitars, two keyboards and a horn section...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2023
Close to Shirley Collins’ home in Lewes, Sussex, is Mount Caburn, a hill topped by an Iron Age fort, that...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2023
In the late 1990s the Americana duo of John Convertino and Joey Burns created a form of desert blues inspired...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2023
Scuru Cauru, Crimi's second album, kicks off with the bubbling of a water pipe and a vague background ditty suggestive...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: July/2023
For 14 years, the Fendika ensemble have represented the Addis Ababa azmaribet (traditional Ethiopian music-house) of the same name, serving...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2023
From Tuva via Moscow to Vienna, Sainkho here visits abandoned islands in the Venetian lagoon, improvising lyrical vocal lines, soft...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: July/2023
It was always going to be a tough ask to follow up on Blick Bassy's seminal 2019 album 1958 (A...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2023
A highly-respected singer from the Fulani community of Mali, but little known outside of her own country and its diaspora,...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2023
Confidently stating Mexican-American music's place within the American Roots tradition, singer La Marisoul has joined with Tejano conjunto Los Texmaniacs...
Reviewed by Patrick Mcmahon in issue: July/2023
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