Reviews
The Manganiyar Seduction
The Manganiyar Seduction has been an extraordinary international theatrical success. It's a visually striking piece by Indian theatre director Roysten...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
The Sound Braka
Multi-instrumentalist and composer, Temelkovski, has recently brought out his first album, a captivating suite of soulful melodies, intoxicating rhythms and...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: December/2021
The Prodigal Son
Ry Cooder's first band, back in the 1960s, was called the Rising Sons; here the prodigal comes home by returning...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2018
In the Beginning
In the Beginning is a collaboration between the Danish singer Kira Skov and the Estonian, Copenhagen-based saxophonist and composer, Maria...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: November/2017
The Water Garden
Okinawa-born Kojun Kokuba’s The Water Garden was first released in 1993, and proved immensely popular, hence this vinyl reissue, complete...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: November/2023
Across The Sea
Anmol Mohara’s music certainly doesn’t lack ambition. The UK-based Nepali percussionist, composer and lyricist packs in a surfeit of ideas...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: December/2025
The Other Place
Irish harper Aisling Urwin’s second solo album is a haunting, experimental and hypnotic listen that perfectly blends harp tradition with...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: February/March/2026
Intrepid Adventures to the Lost Riddim Islands
Nicky Bomba is one of Australia’s busiest musos. Whether drumming behind his roots guitarist brother-in-law John Butler, fronting the 26-piece...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2012
The Rough Guide to Indian Classical Music
This album features a line-up of some distinguished musicians of North and South Indian music, two distinct classical traditions. Among...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2014
Reste la Lumière
This album starts off, appropriately enough, with a track called ‘Courage’, and the long vocal line supported only by a...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2016
