Reviews
Smaa Smaa
Hasna El Becharia is the most famous living, breathing exponent of Algerian Gnawa, that raw and rolling Afro-Berber trance music...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2010
Calling
It is heartening when a thing of beauty emerges following an existential threat: this album is a case in point....
Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: July/2022
Dvojka
Born in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, Damir Imamović is one of the leading names in the country's dynamic new sevdah...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2016
Mare
Why do Germans go to the Mediterranean for their holidays? I know, a controversial question, and liable to prompt talk...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/2021
Otherlands:ONE
American fiddler Casey Driessen spent nine months travelling the world, meeting, listening and playing with local musicians until COVID-19 eventually...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2021
Zorongo Blu
Zorongo Blu offers an accomplished but not entirely comfortable fusion of jazz and flamenco. The group take their name from...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
A Chant About the Beauty of the Moon at Night: Hawaiian Steel Guitar Masters 1913-1921
With Spanish guitars having been well established in the Hawaiian islands since the mid-1800s, local 16-year-old guitarist Joseph Kekuku is...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2022
Eva
An Algarve-born singer of Cape Verdean extraction and a founding member of the MTV award-winning group Nu Soul Family, Dino...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2014
Volume One 1970-1979
‘Sorry’? The unusual first name is probably an Anglicisation of ‘Sorhy,’ which is itself a twisted version of the common...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
The Antiquated &The Arcane
Certain things give the roots revival and environmental con-sciousness a bad name. Those New Age shops full of joss sticks,...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2011
