Reviews
Na Kozonga
It’s been eight years since Kinshasa’s Jupiter Bokondji released his debut album, Hotel Univers. Backed by the tight-as-a-mosquito’s-tweeter Okwess band,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Simnadé + 4
When this recording was first released as an LP on the Rogue Records label in 1989 it heralded the exciting...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2020
Tonkori in the Moonlight
This writer interviewed OKI, the famed Ainu musician and producer from the Japanese island of Hokkaido, for this magazine some...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2022
Puerta del Sur
American salsa this good traditionally hails from New York, courtesy of the Fania label. But Bio Ritmo's 11th album to...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Granada 1013-1502
Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI & La Capella Reial de Catalunya
On his new theme album, named after Granada – the city that epitomised Muslim rule in Spain and also witnessed...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: October/2016
Planting Trees
Abdoulaye Koné, aka Kandiafa, is part of a long line of Mande griots including great-grandfather Djigui and his uncle, Mama...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: April/2021
Songar frå Havdal
I was lucky enough to take part in a workshop a couple of years ago led by the Norwegian singer...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2010
The Butterfly Dream
Little has been heard of the Chinese electro-fusionist since her 2010 album Harmony – which followed a BBC Radio 3...
Reviewed by David Hutcheon in issue: May/2016
