Reviews
Schodsbergs Notebok
Jorun Marie Kvernberg & Øyvind Sandum
The Nordic countries have been assiduous in collecting and codifying their folk music, and these two recordings show two different...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Hotel Univers
Jupiter & Okwess International
For someone releasing his debut album, Jupiter Bokondji – the self-styled ‘rebel general’ of Congolese music – has been around...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Jewish Folksongs from the Shtetl
Olga Mieleszczuk is a classically trained Polish singer and accordionist. In recent years she has focused on Yiddish and Jewish...
Reviewed by Helen Beer in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Leave to Remain
With members of the group hailing from Cuba, Venezuela, Chile, Ghana, Congo, Spain, Argentina, not to mention the UK, it's...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Afro Future Funk
One of the glories of modern world music is the way in which global rhythms have become totally cosmopolitan. To...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Gnawa London
Best known in the UKasa musical collaborator, in particular with Gnawa-indie band Electric Jalaba, Simo Lagnawi springs a few surprises...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Shamrock City
In 1910, a young man named Michael Conway left rural poverty behind in Ireland and took passage across the Atlantic...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: July/2013
Mazembe Mazembe @ 45rpm Vol 1
Orchestra Super Mazembe may be one of the most influential bands in African music. They were one of the first...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2013
Up Like the Clouds
There’s a fast-approaching critical mass of bluegrass/ old-time bands in the 21st century, and With it an increase in self-production....
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: July/2013
Spellbound
It might be an act of contrariness for one of the world’s leading percussionists to devote an album to the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2013
