Reviews
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
Sabîl
Ahmad Al Khatib & Youssef Hbeisch
Time was when Palestinian musicians only got an airing if they snuck in on the dull-but-politically-worthy ticket. How things have...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2012
A Tribute to Greece
Michalis Terzis & Vasilis Skoulas
This CD brings together two prominent and highly regarded Greek musicians. One – Michalis Terzis – is a composer who...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2018
Marwa
Netherlands-based Marianne Svašek is a dhrupad singer and sarangi player. In following her chosen vocation she has certainly ticked all...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: April/2023
Makedonissimo
Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski has made a name for himself through bravura solo readings of Rachmaninov and Chopin, but appears...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: October/2020
Secretly Famous
This is a Western¬er’s image of Cairo and its mythical fleshpots: snake-charmer music for young Euro-clubbers en route to the...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: July/2010
Haiti Vodou: 1937-1962 Folk Trance Possession
Following Frémeaux's 2013 two-CD compilation Jamaica Folk Trance Possession, comes this set of mostly field recordings from Haiti. But where...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: June/2016
