Reviews

Tudo

Joyce Moreno

The artist formerly known as Joyce has been recording for over 40 years. Antonio Carlos Jobim has called her ‘one...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2013

Voice of Flowers: Spring Ragas from India

Baluji Shrivastav

Baluji Shrivastav is a UK-based Indian classical musician who, although blind from the age of eight months, has gone on...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2021

Gasandji

Gasandji

Na Lingui Yo' (‘I love you’ in the Congolese language Lingala) is undoubtedly the big hit of this debut album...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Japanese Taiko

Joji Hirota & The London Taiko Drummers

Taiko drumming in a live setting is a visceral and hypnotic experience: the physicality of the drums and volume of...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: July/2017

Live in Bangalore

Ravi & Anoushka Shankar

Performing in Bangalore in February 2012 (around ten months before his death) Ravi Shankar is on top form here, alongside...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: December/2015

Africa Rekk

Youssou N’Dour

First, the good news. Youssou N’Dour is still in powerful, distinctive voice on his first studio album in over six...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2017

Hallival

Iona Lane

Nominative determinism is at work here. Iona is a Hebridean island famed for its wild beauty, spirituality, and ancient stories....

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2022

Hollowbone

Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening

Right at the heart of this startling album comes ‘Nemesis’, a hymn to the Roman goddess of justice and retribution....

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2019

Autumn Winds

Niall Hanna

It doesn’t take long to get sucked into the subtle beauty of Irish singer and song collector Niall Hanna's debut...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2018

Paspanga

Burkina Electric

On every track of this album there's a rich and strange presence in the soundscape, be it a lick, a...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2012