Reviews
Five Classic Albums
The year-long celebrations for what would have been Bob Marley's 70th birthday have seen a steady stream of activity, crowned...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Impredecible
After plugging away through various stylistic incarnations, from the ska of their debut to the guitar-based cumbia of their subsequent...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Senegal 70
This trip back in time – some 40 years – is all courtesy of Analog Africa's crate-digger extraordinaire, Samy Ben...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
AntroPOPhagia
Beatriz Azevedo is a Brazilian Renaissance woman. A celebrated poet, writer and anthropologist, she's also a composer and a bosom...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
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
