Reviews
Melokáane
Born in Senegal but resident in Canada for the past 20 years, percussionist Elage Diouf has toured the world with...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2017
Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955-69)
Encouraged by an Indonesian government keen to engender ideas of national identity in the newly independent country, a raft of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: January/February/2023
Music of Central Asia Vol Seven: In the Shrine of the Heart
With its seventh volume, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture series focuses for the first time on Uzbekistan and traditional...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2010
BooCheeMish
The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices featuring Lisa Gerrard
The veteran Bulgarian women's choir conducted by Dora Hristova needs little introduction, since their elaborate arrangements and compositions founded on...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: June/2018
Havana Classic
One day someone should write a feature on music tourism – me perhaps! By this, I mean groups of Brits...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2019
YO
A visual and aural treat from Havana's proudest son, who lays himself bare on YO (that's ‘I’ in Spanish) with...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2012
Silk Baroque
This is an elegant album of mainly European baroque music and pseudo-baroque compositions, but with a twist – the solo...
Reviewed by Hyelim Kim in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Marcos Valle JID003
Marcos Valle, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad
More than half a century after recording the seminal Samba ’68 album for Verve, Marcos Valle’s love affair with black...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2020
Tin Can Trust
Arising out of east Los Angeles, Los Lobos first came together to play Mexican corridos (narrative ballads sung in Spanish),...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2010
