Reviews
Ne Ka Mali!!
Amkoullel's Mali is a little different to the West African country of koras and calabashes, Toumanis and Djelimadys, percussion ensembles,...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011
Foxlight
It's taken the County Cork-born former Afro Celts singer six years to follow up his staggeringly visceral Invisible Fields, which...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: October/2011
Bulevar 2000
Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible
When the Tijuana DJs and musicians Ramón Amezcua (aka Bostich) and Pepe Mogt (aka Fussible) presented this album at the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2011
The Best of Quantic
Quantic has taken the world music, clubbing and Latin scenes by stealth. A musician, DJ and record producer based in...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011
Doctor Bird
Now in his mid 70s, the Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian the Mighty Sparrow, still performs, drawing attention to social justice...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: October/2011
Northern Light, Gambian Night
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
Arco Iris
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
Line-Up
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
Hongo Calling
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
