Reviews
Lion Songs: Essential Tracks in the Making of Zimbabwe
As an audio companion to his recent biography of Mapfumo, the American writer and guitarist Banning Eyre has compiled 14...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Original Album Series
Concha Buika has added a compelling vision and an original voice to the Spanish music scene over the past ten...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
The West African Blues Project
The easiest way to describe The West African Blues Project is that it is exactly what it says in its...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Meluta
Finland's Antti Paalanen, as a former pupil of the great Kimmo Pohjonen, learned not only to become a brilliant accordion...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Still
Working with producer Jeff Tweedy, singer of the rootsy American indie band Wilco, Richard Thompson has taken a swerve in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Alone (Ténéré)
Terakaft cannot be numbered among the legion of Tinariwen imitators to have emerged in recent years; they were there at...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2015
Anna & Elizabeth
Like a long-lost Coen Brothers soundtrack, this album opens to the old-time sounds of the Southern cotton fields. Drenched in...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2015
Chasing the Sun
Trilling banjo and strummed guitar, expressive fiddle lines and the purest close-harmony vocals: Chasing the Sun opens with a gorgeous,...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2015
Akö
Born in Cameroon in 1974 but resident in Paris since 2005, Bassy spent ten years in the jazz fusion group...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2015
One
Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy
This album is a new venture for Cape Breton fiddle supremo Natalie MacMaster, in two respects. First, she has recorded...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2015
