Reviews
Parampara Festival 13.3.1992
Held in Berlin in 1992, Parampara Festival brought together Indian teachers and their international students to showcase the global spread...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: January/February/2022
Afrik TounMé
These are difficult days in Mali, with political upheaval adding to the problems brought by COVID-19, but great music is...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: November/2020
Alma Vieja
Founded by American bassist and composer Sascha Jacobsen, Los Tangueros del Oeste is a collective venture that appears to aspire...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2021
Live in Paris
The Master Musicians of Joujouka
The collective of Sufi trance musicians led by Ahmed El Attar (one of two troupes spawning from the village of...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021
Altur Mur
You know that bit in From Dusk till Dawn when the film goes from kidnap story to vampire flick with...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2022
So Much to Defend
As a certain Nobel Prize-winning songwriter once wrote, ‘people are crazy, times are strange’ and that has rarely been so...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2017
Fu Chronicles
This isn't your average Afrobeat album; this one explores not only messages of black power and equality, but also the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2020
O Ku Ngwo Di Ochi
Oriental Brothers International Band
Fifty years ago the Oriental Brothers were a kind of Nigerian boy band. Hailing from the Igbo-dominated eastern region of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022
C'est Le Pompon
This new acoustic dance band announce their intention not just in the title of their first CD – C'est Le...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2018
Beyond the Ragasphere
Whoever still thinks of 'fusion' in the context of Indian music as a term of abuse will have to change...
Reviewed by Rolf Killus in issue: June/2013
