Reviews
The SLAM! Years (1983-88)
Born in Libya but long based in Egypt, Hamid El Shaeri is a superstar of popular Arabic music. This album...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2022
The Next Generation
Groundation are a reggae group who formed at Sonoma State University in 1998. The original members were all studying jazz...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2018
Cruzando Borders
The Grammy-winning Los Texmaniacs play music that celebrates the people and places of the Texas-Mexico borderlands: corridos, boleros and less...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2018
Nim: Taegum Collection
Hyelim Kim is one of Europe’s leading proponents of the taegum, a transverse bamboo flute that serves as a cornerstone...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Tiddukla
The banjo has been a popular instrument in Moroccan music since the early 1970s, when it was first introduced by...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Varka
Dafné Kritharas | DafnÉ Kritharas
It needs to be said at the outset that Dafné Kritharas has a fantastic voice, it has a clear, pure...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: April/2022
The Great Irish Songbook
Dervish mark 30 years together with their first studio album in more than a decade and the first to be...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2019
Spellbound
It might be an act of contrariness for one of the world’s leading percussionists to devote an album to the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2013
