Reviews
Vaivaik
From Taiwan, Sauljaljui is one of the island’s strongest vocalists, hailing from the aboriginal Paiwan people. She performed an impressive...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2025
Ghazals and Thumris: From the Musical Heart of Budapest
Pratibha Singh Baghel, Kavya Limaye, Deepak Pandit, The Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Ghazal and thumri are wonderful poetic sung genres from northern South Asia, emerging out of 19th-century courtesan and Muslim traditions...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: May/2023
El Alma Lastimada y Otros Poemas
In setting the work of 11th-century Andalusian Sephardic poet Solomon Ibn Gabirol to music, the singer and academic Curro Piñana...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2015
Inner Spirits
Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren and Brazilian guitarist Yamandu Costa’s collaborative debut is a thing of beauty. Cast as an Ecuadorian...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: December/2024
Zoom Zemmatt
Senegalese singer and guitarist Mangane is somewhat of a late bloomer. At age 60, Zoom Zemmatt is his first release...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: January/2025
Return to Kielderside
When she was 16 Kathryn Tickell borrowed a tape recorder and spent a weekend in her parents’ kitchen with friends...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: February/March/2025
Kunung Tilo
Singer and kora player Jali Fily Cissokho comes from a long line of West African Mandinka griots – Seckou Keita...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: September/2025
Diaspora in Buenos Aires
This is an intimate document of a Jewish family in Argentina remembering their roots in Eastern Europe. Pianist Andrés Linetzky...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2012
Stradivarius in Rio
Viktoria Mullova’s 2012 autobiography From Russia to Love describes how at the age of 24 she fled Soviet Russia in...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2014
