Reviews
Benin Vol 4: Yehouessi Leopold Batteur
TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
When Dahomey gained its independence from its French colonial masters in 1960 and became Benin, a surge of artistic creativity...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2021
Last Mile Home
The final entry in Boden’s ‘post-oil’ trilogy is an acoustic and spare iteration of his apocalyptic themes, set against the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2021
Folies Berbères
French-Berber singer, Karimouche, returns with her third album, Folies Berbères (Berber Madness), where she talks about growing up in France...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2021
The Smoky Smirr o Rain
Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola
The air is filled with moisture as you gaze out over the shores of a Scottish loch, a Norwegian fjord...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2021
The Wavy Bow Collection
John Carty is one of Ireland’s most respected traditional fiddle and banjo players and this eloquent collection of fiddle tunes...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2021
Kkismettin
This was always going to be interesting, Cypriot composer and performer Antonis Antoniou is well-known from the amazing groups Trio...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: May/2021
Chouf!
Now this looks promising. An Algerian rock album recorded at the Real World studios in Wiltshire with the great Justin...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2021
Songbirds: Albanian Music from 78s 1924-1948
The great dreamer of European unity, Stefan Zweig, speaking of poetics and spiritual power, once wrote that ‘The Skipetares (Albanians)...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2021
Lézard Vert
Do you ever get the feeling that you've put on the wrong album? Lézard Vert is considered a foundational album...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2021
