Reviews
Women, They Cause Fear
The Sea Slugs are an 11-piece Afrobeat ensemble from Southampton. This is their second release, which has its targets firmly...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Eat the Moon
Eat the Moon is the third album by FY5 – aka Finnders & Youngberg – and combines the swinging strings...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Haiti: Meringue & Konpa 1952-1962
An earlier Frémeaux release, 2014's Dominican Republic: Merengue, excelled in profiling the small-combo and orchestra roots of merengue in the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Dimbambe: Identité
Affable yet determined, velvet-smooth yet troubled. Such colourful, perhaps contradictory epithets could describe the Cameroonian Mario Combo and his fourth...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Hatched
While she is not widely known in the UK, Badi Assad is one of the most popular Brazilian artists in...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Hunting, Love and Mockery Songs
Since the late 1950s Radio France's Ocora imprint has been releasing well-recorded and brilliantly annotated field recordings of ethnic music...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Zydeco: Black Creole French Music & Blues 1928-1972
Zydeco is Creole French for something lacking spice – food or gossip – and only came into common use in...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Fine Bloom
Free the Honey is a quartet that plies its trade with a tight-knit, nearly telepathic ease. Jenny Hill (vocals, fiddle,...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
100% Dynamite
Subtitled Ska, Soul, Rocksteady & Funk in Jamaica, this pioneering compilation was a hit when first released almost 20 years...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Renascence
Given her status as the queen of the Mande griots, it comes as a shock to realise that this is...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
