Reviews
Memory Islands
Ellie Wilson is an explorer of the contemporary classical, folk and electronica worlds, and her new album, Memory Islands, documents...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: March/2024
Albat Alawi Op 99
Eyal El Wahab, the young music maker behind El Khat, is a true original. Many of his homemade instruments are...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: May/2022
Yen Ara
Ebo Taylor has been doing his stuff for more than 60 years now, so he knows how to make an...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2018
Babi
Touareg music hasn't always been about electric guitars and the Tamashek quartet Al Bilali Soudan (an ancient name for the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2023
Poison Fruit
Poison Fruit is an electric, groove-based collage of Brazilian vibes. As an unorthodox take on Brazilian music, this album could...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: May/2019
ABAN
Touring around Europe and the US heavily in recent months, the Garifuna gang from Belize sound much more traditionally folkloric...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2019
A Gathering of Strangers 2021
Transglobal Underground & Our European Friends
A Gathering of Strangers first saw light in 2010 when it was released by a pan-EU collective headed by dubtronic...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2021
Tales of Indian Sarod
Pradeep Barot, Riccardo Battaglia, Federico Sanesi
Pradeep Barot studied under Annapurna Devi – a surbahar (bass sitar) virtuoso, daughter of the legendary Allauddin Khan and once...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: October/2017
Binari: Well Wishing Music
As those who have seen the group live know, Dulsori mix old and new, but they do so with authority,...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: June/2012
Unexpected Guests
The title-track of Unexpected Guests lives up to the billing. Bagpiper Craig Downie blares dramatically over a boisterous tabla beat....
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: January/2021
