Reviews
Xamle
Growing up as a dancer in Senegal and reinventing himself as a singer in the UK, Batch Gueye is starting...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Mames Babegenush With Strings
This fifth helping of Babegenush is as joyous, sorrowful and deftly produced as the group's previous albums, and this time...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Banjul-London
Originally from the Gambia, but resident in London since 2002, Jally Kebba Susso is a kora player but he's not...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
A Pocket of Wind Resistance
Karine Polwart with Pippa Murphy
From the first note to the final, pulsing heartbeat, this is not merely an album of songs but a full...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Bone Reader
Washington DC isn't an obvious place to look for Afrobeat. Yet in the land of suits and carpeted corridors, Chopteeth...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Escapology
As a bansuri (flute) rises from a bed of flamenco guitar on album opener ‘Escapology’, any listeners who last heard...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Echo in the Valley
Although they've been married since 2009, Béla Fleck, the world's premier banjo player, and clawhammer banjo player and singer Abigail...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Wiejski Dżez
The Malisz family hail from Męcina Mała, a small village in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains near the Slovakian...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
