Reviews
Cuba: Music and Revolution – Culture Clash in Havana Cuba, Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85 Vol 1
This compilation, curated by Gilles Peterson and Soul Jazz's Stuart Baker, collects together some of the most exploratory items from...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2021
The Sound of Telemark
Drive three hours west of Oslo and nature beckons. There are farms, trees laden with red apples in late summer,...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2021
Kill Me or Negotiate
Egyptian vocalist and trumpeter Abdullah Miniawy and French electronicist Simo Cell have been collaborating for just over two years, tinkering...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2021
Native Music 15: Traditional, Folk & World Music from Latvia
Throughout their history the peoples of the Baltic have, sometimes at great cost, maintained their national and cultural identities, in...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2021
Planting Trees
Abdoulaye Koné, aka Kandiafa, is part of a long line of Mande griots including great-grandfather Djigui and his uncle, Mama...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: April/2021
Mutende Mizimu: Vimbuza from Mzimba North
Doctor Kanuska leads her ensemble in the traditional vimbuza healing trance dance ritual. As a child she was diagnosed by...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2021
Grifone
A primadonna in contemporary Italian folk, Maria Mazzotta lives between her hometown Salento and the French Pyrenees. She has a...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: April/2021
Can You Feel It?
Last year the excellent Canadian crate-digging label We Are Busy Bodies reissued Armitage Road, a 1970 album by South African...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2021
Jubel
Two decades ago a group of young folk musicians said farewell to the Norwegian State Music Academy and decided to...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2021
