Reviews
Nagham Fi Hayati
Born in Syria in 1910, Farid El Atrache was an icon of 20th-century Arab music and culture. Having moved to...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2023
Mezcla
This mezcla (mix) of Colombian energy and New York savvy promises much, but delivers even more. To their native Afro-Colombian...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2016
Ethiopiques Vol 26
Mahmoud Ahmed & The Imperial Bodyguard Band
This latest release in the long running Éthiopiques series is very much a game of two halves. The opening five...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Tajikistan: Classical Music and Songs
This suite of mainly instrumental music is an exemplary presentation of Tajik art music. Abdurashidov plays the sato, a (very)...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: July/2013
Celebration of a Legend
Following his 1970s and 80s involvement with several local Melanesian string bands and the popular Papuan rock group Painim Wok,...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
All of This Is Chance
Fresh from signing off Peaky Blinders with a cover of Bob Dylan's ‘All the Tired Horses’, O’Neill returns to her...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2023
Siku
Born in France to Ecuadorian parents, Nicola Cruz is one of a number of producers of recent years who have...
Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: March/2019
Traditional Greenlandic Music Vol 1-5 (1906-1989)
This impressive edition was compiled by the ethnomusicologist Michael Hauser and Karsten Sommer, a well-known figure in Greenland's music industry....
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2016
Te Vaka Beats: Vol I
With ancestral links to the small Pacific islands of Tuvalu and Tokelau, Polynesian group Te Vaka originally formed in New...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2017
