Reviews

Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996

VARIOUS ARTISTS

American label Light in the Attic, which specialises in publishing rare music, now release a compilation of Ukrainian music from...

Reviewed by Yurii Bereza in issue: December/2024

Aïta: Chikhates & Chioukhs of the Aïta

VARIOUS ARTISTS

One day they'll build a statue to honour Brahim El Mazned. The discreet producer has forged a 30-year career devoted...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

A Thousand Pokes

Stick in the Wheel

‘Pokes’ were typos to 14th-century scribes, and it's the rough music of a mistaken world, poked through with holes, that's...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2024

Bahriye Çiftetellisi

Cüneyt Sepetçi & Orchestra Dolapdere

Orchestra Dolapdere, named after the quarter of Beyoğlu from which the musicians come, includes some top players – Veysel Imeci...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2013

Faso Denou

Farafina | King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal I | Omar Pene & Super Diamono | Remmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matimila | SE Rogie | The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar

The rustic Wiltshire village of Box in the Cotswolds could hardly be more quintessentially English. The Rev W Awdry, who...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2022

Viva Tu

Manu Chao

It has been 17 years since Manu Chao’s last studio album, 2007’s La Radiolina – but then he has never...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2024