Reviews
Wa
Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler
This really is like no other Middle Eastern recording you are likely to encounter and it is best to say...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: April/2020
Aloud
Raymond Antrobus & Evelyn Glennie
Poet Raymond Antrobus and percussionist Evelyn Glennie reconvene for a second album of percussion and poetry, made in one afternoon,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2025
Gaudencia
After listening to an MC Yallah record it's tempted to conclude that every other rapper in the game is slacking....
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: September/2025
Jardin d’ailleurs
Gaëlle Bagot & Juan Manuel Nieto
The piano-clarinet duet format, with vocals sung mainly in French, would not be my first choice, but this new release...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: February/March/2026
Future Trad Collective
The Future Trad Collective's music has the aura of a mighty jam session. The creation of three musicians who all...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2011
Desesperanza
In Bogotá’s alternative music scene Meridian Brothers are quite rightly hailed as one of Colombia’s most interesting and enjoyable musical...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Sublime Strings – South Indian Classical Music
The violinist Lalgudi Jayaraman is part of a long line of disciples of the famous Tyagaraja, an 18th-century composer and...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2011
Racines
The Ivory Coast reggae singer Tiken Jah Fakoly continues his penchant for melding Jamaican and West African styles, going a...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Palermo Snow
There's quite a gap between Traveller's Prayer, released in 1998, and this latest album, which Renbourn describes as ‘a departure...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011
The Reeling
The Reeling ends with the great singer and piper Rona Lightfoot, now 82 years old, giving a little laugh of...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2019
