Reviews
Cold Weather Music
A skilled and tasteful guitarist, Paul Tasker has taken time out from his band, the Doghouse Roses, to craft a...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Travesía
Gerardo Núñez's infrequent albums have offered persuasive evidence that he is one of the contemporary flamenco guitarists most fluent in...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: October/2012
Hawaiian Guitar
This album, a rerelease of Hawaiian guitar music recorded roughly 30 years ago, is a little like the aural version...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2012
Umanyanyatha: Songs from the Soul of Zimbabwe
Born in Zimbabwe but resident in Austria for more than 20 years, Vusa Mkhaya made his name in world music...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
Aka Balkan Moon/AlefBa
Veteran Belgian fusionists Aka Moon started off experimenting with Central African polyrhythms and polyphonies. On this live double album, they...
Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: December/2015
Migrant Voices
Migrant Voices is a collaboration between two immigrants to Canada who discovered each other through the global music scene in...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2024
Your Face is Like the Moon, Your Eyes Are Stars
Zhungdra music, according to Kuensel, Bhutan’s national newspaper, ‘was first performed [in Bhutan] in the 17th century to commemorate the...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: September/2024
Phylipe Nunes Araújo
With his debut album, the singer-songwriter from Pernambuco adds his own poetic, melodic music to that of similar artists from...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/2026
Across The Sea
Anmol Mohara’s music certainly doesn’t lack ambition. The UK-based Nepali percussionist, composer and lyricist packs in a surfeit of ideas...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: December/2025
