Reviews
Dindin
From the age of eight, Kimi Djabaté was forced to sing and play balafón at weddings and baptisms in Guinea-Bissau...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2023
Bichos
In recent years a diasporic Venezuelan sound has reverberated around the world, thanks to artists such as Family Atlantica, Betsayda...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: November/2020
YITA (Deep Water)
Ivorian-American singer Fely Tchaco released her fifth album on International Women’s Day (March 8), a gesture intended to underline its...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2021
Now
The Swedish fiddler Ellika Frisell and the Senegalese kora player Solo Cissokho won a BBC Radio 3 Award for World...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Lonely Hymns and Pillars of Emptiness
Conceived in isolation during the spring of 2020, this recording is the solo debut by multi-instrumentalist Iztok Koren (of Širom...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2021
The Fiery Margin
Few singers directly impugn deities or muse on the fickle frailties of human flesh in their songs these days. Indeed,...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: December/2019
Fasl-i Rembetiko
Deep currents are crossing the blue Aegean – the Greek economic crisis and the Turkish ascent are altering old balances,...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Mucho Gusto
Acid Coco are a Colombian duo whose careers have led them to the US, Europe and beyond. Before the formation...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2020
Rompiendo Aguas
The name of this duo, made up of Gerona-born Silvia Pérez Cruz and Israeli Ravid Goldschmidt, doesn’t refer to the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012
Unity
A Gnawa singer and master of the three-stringed sintir lute, Hassan Hakmoun made his name more than 20 years ago...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2014
