Reviews
Galanìas
Twelve years since Canti Delle Donne Sarde, the stunning debut from the female quintet who briskly defied the island's traditionally...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: April/2017
The God Who Devastates Also Cures
On each of Lucas Santtana's previous five albums there was a concept that the Brazilian singer-songwriter set himself, a way...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Jaime & Nair
Arranger, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jaime Alem and his wife Nair de Cândia's 1979 touchstone ‘Passará’ remains perhaps one of the...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2021
Parfum de Jasmin
There is something very Western-centric and media-friendly about the fashion for naming popular uprisings after colours, seasons and horticulture. It’s...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2012
Suba
Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita's debut album as a duo, Transparent Water, came out in 2017 and was a transporting...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2021
Blitzmash
Despite their ambition to remain at the cutting edge of innovative world jazz, the Amsterdam Klezmer Band has always been...
Reviewed by Ton Maas in issue: July/2014
Long Road to Tiznit
Blues guitarist and serial collaborator Ramon Goose, most recently heard with the West African Blues Project, is back with a...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2017
Abatwa (The Pygmy): Why Did We Stop Growing Tall?
Following recordings made in Vietnam, Cambodia and Mali, the fourth album in Ian Brennan's Hidden Musics series finds the indefatigable...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2017
Ashofak Baden
Singer Nadin Al Khalidi saw a selfie of a Yazidi couple in northern Iraq that they had posted on social...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2016
