Reviews
Balas y Chocolate
Passion in spite of poverty, magic in the face of misery – these are survival strategies in Latin America. Lila...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2015
Ye Katama Hod: The Belly of the City
Born in Somalia to Ethiopian and Italian parents, and now based in Italy, vocalist Saba Anglana found the inspiration for...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2015
From Here
Every couple of years or so, a really good punk band comes along to remind everyone what's really important: saying...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: November/2015
Ani Ukali, Sangai Orali
Here's something a little different, from the new-school folk band Night. They attempt to take the folk traditions – principally...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2015
Mongolie: Chants de Gorge
This budget CD is a compilation of Mongolian traditional music that only actually features four tracks with throat singing. The...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: November/2015
In Galway
The most recent studio albums by the genre-defying Sharon Shannon, such as Saints and Scoundrels and Flying Circus, have found...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2015
Fatteliku: Live in Athens
Youssou N’Dour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar
In 1987, when it looked as though global sounds, African music in particular, would take a major share of the...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: November/2015
Mud Doll
Single-handedly produced, recorded, arranged, mixed and mastered by British talent Niraj Chag, this is ambitiously lofty (if occasionally bombastic) cinematic...
Reviewed by Jon Mitchell in issue: November/2015
Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83
A dreadlocked mane, popularised eternally by Bob Marley, is an iconic image for Jamaican music. But would Rastafari have become...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: November/2015
