Reviews
Letters from Iraq
Rahim AlHaj learned to play the oud (lute) as a schoolboy in Iraq and went on to study under Munir...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: July/2017
Frost on Fiddles
One of my enduring WOMAD memories is of a cold, wet, muddy night in 2007 when the seven-piece Finnish band...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2017
Dunrobin Place
It's hard not to sound like a broken record when talking about the albums of today's technically gifted, highly adept...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: March/2013
The Wait
Staples on the Australian music scene since the 1980s, when they were prominently featured in The Black Sorrows band, Aussie-Tongan...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2022
I've Forgotten Now Who I Used to Be
The producer Ian Brennan has for some years been on a mission to give a platform to the voices of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2021
Apollo You Sixteen
‘Progressive world music’ is how this Belgium-based 40-year-old autodidact describes his latest album, which fuses flamenco with folk, garage, classical...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Where the Galleon Sank
Canadian calypso singer Drew Gonsalves’ latest Kobo Town album reflects a deepening love of Trinidad and Tobago's music and culture....
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: June/2018
Zando Ya Makambo
This is the latest in a series of releases from London studio Pro Smart under the direction of Congolese musician...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2020
Sîn
Did you ever go into a shop selling vapes and mobile phone cases and the dude behind the counter is...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/2025
