Reviews
Isolashun
Aditya Prakash’s debut solo album with its phonetic spelling of ‘isolation’ appears to be a direct reference to the pandemic...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: January/February/2024
Deep Africa
Back in the 90s, Eric Mouquet and his French ‘ethnic electronica collective’ Deep Forest did more than anyone else to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2013
Perfect Place
This is a duo that knows what matters sonically and has the guts to see it through. Laura Quirke and...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: July/2026
Private Recordings 1968 – Featuring K. Shivakumar
This album is given over to the great mridangam (double-headed drum) player, P.S. Devarajan, ably supported by a young K....
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2026
Les Égarés
Ballaké Sissoko, Vincent Segal, Émile Parisien, Vincent Peirani
One has come to expect excellence and refinement from Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal. The Malian-French duo explore a unique...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: May/2023
An Introduction to John Tams
The seventh in Topic's Introducing series, this a welcome survey of John Tams' solo work alongside two prime cuts from...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Carretero
Cándido Fabré has proved himself time and again to be one of Cuba's best living soneros. He first attracted...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Párhuzamok és Kontrasztok
Amazingly Muzsikás' last record, The Bartók Album, came out in 1998 and was a Top of the World in #1....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020
Athar
The first few moments of Khaled Aljaramani's first solo album come as something of a blessed relief: the sound of...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Sur Sangeet
Dildar Hussain Khan & Abrar Hussain Khan
It's unlikely that readers will know the name Dildar Hussain Khan, although many will have heard him as the accompanying...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
