Reviews
Afro-Beat Airways
For this eighth release on his excellent Analog Africa imprint, Samy Ben Redjeb gets stuck in to Dick Essilfie-Bondzie’s Essiebons...
Reviewed by Quinton Scott in issue: October/2010
Thul’ubheke
What can you say about a new Soul Brothers record? Over umpteen albums and more than 40 years, the two...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2010
The New Farming Scene
This is the third album from the Edinburgh-based band that brings together British folk songs with the American bluegrass style...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: October/2010
Toca Madera
Of all the music made in Barcelona over the last 50 years it is rumba flamenco (aka rumba Catalan) that...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2010
The World Ends: Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria
Is there no end to this stuff? The World Ends is the third album of vintage Nigerian sounds released on...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2010
Cumbia Beat Vol 1
Peru had a sizzling, cosmopolitan music scene in the 1960s and 70s, when shifting nationalist politics, coupled with huge rural...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: October/2010
Balkan Fever London – Mind the Brass
Phis new compilation of UK bands is the latest in a long line of localised Gypsy or Balkan scenes sprouting...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: October/2010
Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall & the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program
Preservation matches a wildly diverse collection of 20 well-known performers (The Blind Boys of Alabama, Angélique Kidjo, Merle Haggard and...
Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: October/2010
The Rough Guide To Desert Blues
It used to be something of a closed shop. For years and years, when it came to the sandblasted desert...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: October/2010
South Africa’s Skylark
Of the many Makeba compilations on the market, this 45-track set may just be the most comprehensive of them all....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2010
