Reviews
Finding Friends Far from Home: A Journey with Clara Net
‘Tell us a story!’ kids chant on the opening track of this educational CD. What follows, though not quite a...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Alegrià e Libertà
Lucilla Galeazzi, Didier Laloy, Ialma, Carlo Rizzo and Maarten Decombel
This feels like a convivial affair – a motley group of musicians coming together, jamming, finding they get along really...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Balkanica! v2
This album is the second in the Balkan-ica! series from Green Queen Music, an Italian label run by Luca Gatti...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2011
Towards Other Worlds
Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra formed in late 2007 at a series of late night Afrobeat sessions at a Leeds-based jazz venue...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2013
What Pan Did for Me
Visitors to Port of Spain's legendary carnival will recall Panorama, the steel band competition at which bands – some up...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: November/2015
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K Frimpong (Blue & Black)
K Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas
Ever since K Frimpong’s music first started reappearing on compilations a decade or so ago, original copies of his LPs...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
ImmiGrand Deluxe
Montréal is a chilly place for five months a year but Wesli, a singer born and raised in Haiti, is...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2018
The Roots of Chicha II
I imagine a lot of Peruvian women have enjoyed dancing on the dance floor to the female singer of Manzanita...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Kôrôlén
Toumani Diabaté and the London Symphony Orchestra
Anyone who saw one of the symphonic concerts Toumani Diabate gave with three different orchestras in 2008 will have been...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2021
Dingue Marrow
Mohsen Sharifian and Lian Music Band
A recent trend among popular musicians in Iran has been the creation of fusions of various kinds, including mixing traditional...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: May/2016
