Reviews
Badinyaa Kumoo
Long respected as the first internationally successful female kora player, it is more than a decade since Sona Jobarteh's last...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2022
Mo Ashibi Magic: Live in Tokyo 1999
Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman
Okinawan singer, guitarist and sanshin player Takashi Hirayasu and world music nomad Bob Brozman came together in 1999 to record...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Hunger of the Skin
Hunger of the Skin finds Flook flautist Brian Finnegan putting COVID-19 lockdown purdah to scintillating use with a firing-on-all-cylinders set....
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2021
Salvor
This compelling pairing of two innovative artists – Jim Moray and Sam Carter – arose from a late-night bar session....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2015
Two Beats One Soul
Of all the recent Cuban mash-ups, this fusion of Cuban and North American music comes with the most inflated publicity....
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2018
Betrayal of a Sacred Sunflower
The oud player and composer Joseph Tawadros has worked tirelessly over the last decade to move his instrument into new...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2020
The Wild Atlantic Way: A Journey in Irish Music
Launched in 2014, and claiming to be the world's longest coastal touring route, the Wild Atlantic Way threads itself along...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: December/2015
Amandla
Zimbabwean singer Shelter Matshelela presents us here with an archetypal bubblegum (township pop) album brim-full of happy, head-nodding tunes. Matshelela...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: November/2018
