Reviews
El Fill del Llop
Although Efrén López is Spanish-born, he mostly plays various types of Turkish saz and tanbur (long-necked lutes) as well as...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2015
Ililta! New Ethiopian Dance Music
You could be forgiven for presuming that, such is the Éthiopiques-fuelled fascination for Ethiopian music from the 1960s and 70s,...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: June/2010
Riots in the Jungle
Skip & Die are an enigmatic creative duo who've made a debut album that could and should be reviewed by...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2013
Deli
This second album fro m Burkinabé guitarist Victor Démé is a brave and experimental release from a man who went...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: June/2010
Strings That Sing
This is Baobab-Gateway's debut album, featuring a unique combination of traditional West African, Ugandan and modern instruments. Tanzanian-born Dougie Hudson...
Reviewed by Louise Ungless in issue: Apr/May/2012
Toca Madera
Of all the music made in Barcelona over the last 50 years it is rumba flamenco (aka rumba Catalan) that...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2010
How Shall I Say?
Ghazals are at the core of the Urdu literary tradition, which reached its zenith in North India during the 1...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2011
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90 years (1925-2015)
Composer Mikis Theodorakis is a Greek national institution, best known overseas for his soundtracks to Zorba the Greek and Serpico....
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Éperdument… Chants d’Amour Persans
Trained to recite the Qur’an as he was being brought up, Alireza Ghorbani developed his vocal abilities at a young...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2015
À Flor da Pele
It was inevitable that fado, like any other musical genre, would find a new audience (even in its home country)...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2010
