Reviews
Endless Path
Mahsa Vahdat & Coskun Karademir
A while ago, the Secret Ensemble from Istanbul invited Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat to make a recording, the critically acclaimed...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: March/2018
Melodies of Light
Yosef-Gutman Levitt & Omri Mor
Having only recently reviewed Levitt’s Soul Song (in #190) I was surprised and delighted to see he’d released a second...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: January/February/2024
Introducing Amadou Diagne
Senegalese guitarist and singer-songwriter Amadou Diagne won World Music Network's online ‘Battle of the Bands’ competition with an entry that...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2012
Tülay German & François Rabbath
Tülay German & François Rabbath
Vocalist Tülay German cut her teeth as a jazz singer in Istanbul nightclubs in the early 60s before bursting onto...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021
We Are Each Other, This Will Set Us Free
The debut album from Bristol-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist boci covers a lot of ground musically, yet is rooted in...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2022
Free Music (Part One)
Free Music (Part One) compiles the third and fourth albums (the only ones released on vinyl) of the Libyan, mid-70s,...
Reviewed by Nick Hobbs in issue: June/2023
Let's Go
The four daughters of the Reverend Sam McCrary (leader of noted gospel group The Fairfield Four) have built quite a...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2015
The Woman at the End of the World
Elza Soares has been one of Brazil's most controversial samba singers ever since her career began in the late 1950s,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2016
Where Did You Go?
Having released their first EP way back in 2018, Sandman Project’s aptly titled first full-length Where Did You Go? poses...
Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: August/2024
August
Since the release of their first album, Modus Operandi, in 2013, Trio Dhoore, made up of brothers Koen (hurdy-gurdy), Hartwin...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2019
