Reviews
Compay Son con Pasión
At first glance this CD looks off-putting: the sleeve being reminiscent of a flier taped to the desk of a...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Gipsy Rhumba
Andalucía's connection with Gypsy culture via flamenco is famous. Less well-known is the emergence, during the early 1960s, of a...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2014
Where You Wish You Were
Bill Laurance & Michael League
Michael League and Bill Laurance are leading figures of the massively popular collective Snarky Puppy, who snag everything from jazz,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: April/2023
Wake the Dead
San-Franciscan Chuck Prophet teams up with cumbia urbana group ¿Qiensave? from California with roots in Michoacán, Mexico, on Wake the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2024
I am a Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth, I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 is a diverse and fascinating...
Reviewed by Devon Leger in issue: August/September/2023
Bullinn
Bullinn is the third album from the Norwegian Hardanger fiddler (and prize-winning fiddle maker) Ottar Kåsa, jazz musician Mattis Kleppen...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Carry Fire
The follow-up to 2014's Lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar is hardly a world music album in any conventional sense. But...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2017
Pearly Clouds
Pearly Clouds are a trio comprising American guitarist Gary Lucas, Hungarian singer Enikő Szabó and jazz saxophonist Tóni Dezső. Lucas...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2016
Jolifanto
For all its depth of tradition, flamenco has always been moved by innovation. In 1979 Camarón de le Isla’s La...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2024
Badā
Farah Kaddour’s inaugural solo venture, Badā, unfolds as a deliberate exploration of the buzuq, a Persian lute akin to the...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2024
