Reviews
Queens of Fado: The Next Generation
Not that long ago, no youngster in their right mind would confess to liking fado in Portugal. In the years...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Yakar
After years spent playing percussion in L’orchestre Nationale du Senegal and backing the likes of Youssou N’Dour on tour, Diagne,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2013
Tikounen
Can you have too many Touareg guitar records? Not when they’re as potent as this second album from Kel Assouf,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016
The Storm
Born in the Mississippi Delta, Elder Jack Ward died this April after a lifetime of singing soulful gospel. The Storm...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2023
Desert Drip
It’s maybe not a very usual response to music to think, ‘how clever!’, but cleverness is what comes to mind...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: November/2023
Iboto Ngenge
A fine balance of danceable music which pushes the boat out sonically and a sound firmly rooted in Congolese rumba...
Reviewed by Nik Hann in issue: May/2024
Mayday
For Québec-based guitarist and singer Myriam Gendron’s fascinating 2014 debut record, she took the unusual step of recording a concept...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: July/2024
Earthen
Anning is an Australian bassist-composer who studied in New York, before performing alongside such legendary jazz players as saxophonist Joe...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2024
Gaga Gundul
Since their eponymous debut in 2017, French electric jazz quartet Peemaï, from Montpellier, have rearranged Asian traditional tunes, following bassist...
Reviewed by Jean Berry in issue: September/2024
Canes of Karabakh
The best reeds for the duduk, an Armenian woodwind instrument and a symbol of Armenian culture, are made from cane...
Reviewed by Michał Wieczorek in issue: April/2026
