Reviews
Tango 3.0
The release of Vuelvo Al Sur/El Capitalismo Foraneo in 2000 and, a year later, La Revancha del Tango changed the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2010
Folies Berbères
French-Berber singer, Karimouche, returns with her third album, Folies Berbères (Berber Madness), where she talks about growing up in France...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2021
Sheikhs Shikhats & B’net Chaabi
Sheikhs Shikhats & B’net Chaabi
This sprawling 18-piece Belgian ensemble combines Sheikhs Shikhats and B’net Chaabi, the former a horn-dominated band fronted by a female...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2023
Rhapsody in Blue
According to no less an authority than Jim Farrington, former Music Librarian and Director of the World Music Archive at...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2024
The World That I Knew
Dublin-based duo VARO – singers and fiddlers Lucie Azconaga and Consuelo Nerea Breschi, from France and Italy respectively – are...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2025
Elan
A confessed city boy, Gareth Bonello, aka The Gentle Good, wrote this album during a year-long residency in Wales’ Elan...
Reviewed by Elliw Iwan in issue: August/2025
Sun Gong/Bring on the Sun
Four decades ago, zitherist Edward Larry Gordon made his debut on a small US label. Then, renamed Laraaji, he collaborated...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: June/2018
Do Claro ao Breu
Sopa de Pedra are a Portuguese vocal ten-piece that got together ten years ago – which some may know already...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2022
Low Country Blues
From the opening track of Gregg All man’s Low Country Blues – a funky, foot-stomping version of Sleepy John Estes’...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2011
21 Spices
Trilok Gurtu with Simon Phillips & NDR Big Band
Setting aside his wonderfully adventurous series of world music fusions, 21 Spices finds Trilok Gurtu returning to his early jazz...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2011
