Reviews
Someone’s got to Pay
Anyone who’s seen this four-piece country band live will have been impressed by the way they manage to make serious...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Banda Dois
Having quit formal politics and swapped President Lula and Brasilia for a return to the international circuit, Gil presents us...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Greatest Hits
This is a compilation to embrace, a beautifully varied album of relatively unknown material by veteran Cuban singer Omara Portuondo....
Reviewed in issue July/2010
The Afrosound of Colombia Volume 1
Kicking off with a funky, yelping dance track that makes you wonder whether James Brown actually spent the 60s and...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Egypt Noir
The idea behind this album is to present the music of the Africans from the deserts that encompass most of...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Things That Fly
If you like peppery banjo picking and close male harmonies – and you should if you're a bluegrass fan –...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Ghana Funk from the 70s
Ghana, like Benin, might not have had a Fela Kuti or a Hugh Masekela, but it always had the funk....
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Bride of the Zar
Rango is the name of a wooden xylophone and of a tradition that stretches back to Sudanese tribal culture, to...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Mulatu Steps Ahead
An influential star of the golden age of Ethiopian popular music, Mulatu Astatke was also the first African student at...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
The Rough Guide to Arabic Lounge
Lounge – it's a tricky old concept. ‘Mood music that evoked exotic elsewheres’ is how the liner notes define its...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
