Reviews
Behave the Bravest
Can Nuala Kennedy really be celebrating ten years as a solo artist? It is hard to believe, but Behave the...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2016
City Beats
The impact of the revolutions that swept the Arab world since 2010 on its musicians have rarely been chronicled or...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: November/2018
11 Dimensions
This is CH Straatmann's second solo album. He's an undeniably talented bass player, who hails from Brazil, with an impressive...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2020
Two Score
Now entering their fifth decade, albeit with a lengthy 1990s hiatus included, and having undergone numerous line-up changes, the current...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018
Rangeele
Rangeele is Kailash Kher's fourth album with the band Kailasa, which he set up with brothers Paresh and Naresh Kamath...
Reviewed by Kulbir Natt in issue: June/2012
Sonando Ya
The Sierra Maestra, the mountainous region where the leading lights of the 1959 Cuban revolution hid out, is intimately associated...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010
Sahel Folk
Sidi Touré’s first album, Hoga, appeared 14 years ago on Stern’s and it is an indication of how the global...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2011
Introducing Amadou Diagne
Senegalese guitarist and singer-songwriter Amadou Diagne won World Music Network's online ‘Battle of the Bands’ competition with an entry that...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2012
Las Historias Que Han Dejado
Latin America’s folk fusion traditions share common roots in Spain, West Africa, Poland, France and other Old World cultures, often...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2022
Ravi Shankar: Sukanya
Ravi Shankar began writing his last major work when he was 90. An opera based on an ancient Sanskrit tale...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020
