Anyone who enjoyed the 2019 Smithsonian Folkways album Songs of Our Native Daughters is going to love My Black Country....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
Lobos is one of those Buenos Aires province backwater towns where nothing much happens, ever. It may be an accidental...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2024
Forget desert blues. Mdou Moctar insist they are a rock band, influenced by Jimi Hendrix and Van Halen as much...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2024
Wyndham Baird’s music lives at the intersection of witting imitation, authentic reinterpretation and inspired creation. He sings like his (mostly)...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2024
Sierra Ferrell kicks off her latest album with ‘American Dreaming’, ‘one of several songs co-written with… frequent collaborator Melody Walker...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2024
At the height of apartheid in 1983, Darius Brubeck, son of the legendary jazz giant Dave Brubeck and an accomplished...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
Asmâa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou
The second album by Gnawa maalma Asmâa Hamzaoui and her all-female group Daughters of Timbuktu is a bass-lute thudding, qaraqab-clattering,...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2024
Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars
After nearly 15 years playing trumpet in America’s seminal klezmer band The Klezmatics (with whom he is still active), Frank...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2024
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