The Gambian kora player Amadou Bansang Jobarteh awoke many Western listeners to African music two decades ago, and now Dawda,...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: October/2011
Moroccan singer Amina Alaoui made a memorable recording of Arab-Andalus songs called Alcantara in the early days of Songlines –...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2011
Like Fairport Convention, Battle– field Band have a good four decades of music-making behind them, drawing on the rich heritage...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2011
Billed as the new soul voice of Cameroon, Blick Bassy is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and percussionist whose Bassa-language solo debut...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011
Just four years since the Irish band's debut A Lovely Madness comes Beoga's fourth album How to Tune a Fish...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: October/2011
Formed in a pub under the Stockport viaduct, this rough and ready young trio interpret classics of the English folk...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2011
There've been many attempts to meld Ireland's traditional music with the disparate conflation that forms modern-day American bluegrass, most recently...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: October/2011
Whether it's the folk of Madredeus, the samba of Chico Buarque or the manifold rhythms and cadences of Lusitanian Africa,...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: October/2011
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