Reviews
Arirang and Minyo Singing
Lee is a singer who has been deemed so culturally significant that the South Korean government awarded her the prestigious...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: July/2014
Mairearad & Anna
Opening with the playfully jazzy intro of ‘Tatties & Ham’ and concluding with the stirring pipe march of ‘New Claes,...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2012
Live at the NCH
Dublin's National Concert Hall has become a home from home for The Gloaming – they spent seven nights there in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2018
Siphr
Siphr (Zero) is the first studio album by the Lebanese-American musician, artist and educator Naima Shalhoub. With playing and writing...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Salulandela
Back in the late 1980s, the tight, chirpy hits of pop-fusion outfit Ilanga were a staple of Zimbabwean radio. The...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: Apr/May/2011
Ligéey
Most listeners will probably have first encountered the Senegalese singer Amadou Diagne on a 2012 set in World Music Network's...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2015
Before the Sun
Following her fine solo debut, Charms Against Sorrow, the singer and guitarist has teamed up with The Willows’ dobro player,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2016
No Reino Dos Afetos
Bruno Berle hails from Maceió, Alagoas, a state on the east coast of Brazil that boasts a tight-knit musical community....
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: August/September/2022
Secretly Famous
This is a Western¬er’s image of Cairo and its mythical fleshpots: snake-charmer music for young Euro-clubbers en route to the...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: July/2010
Sonbonbela
Baba Commandant & the Mandingo Band
According to a somewhat over-excited press release, the third album by Burkina Faso's Baba Commandant & the Mandingo Band is...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2022
