Reviews
Quicksand
The French producer Philippe Sanmiguel moved to Bamako 16 years ago and has since produced a raft of fine albums...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2022
The Art of the Daegeum Sanjo
The latest of Inédit's series of Korean sanjo releases is for daegeum, a horizontal bamboo flute with a resonator and...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: Apr/May/2015
The Art of Mandolin
First things first: Simon Mayor is an extraordinarily talented mandolin player. He is clearly a little obsessed: the CD booklet...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2014
Vintage Americana
Ian McCamy is one of the leading fiddlers in old¬time American music circles. His illustrious playing has sparkled throughout albums...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
A Golden Thread
Pete Morton is unashamedly old school – in the best possible way. He's a fine singer, with a relaxed but...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Agüeros
One accusation that cannot be fired at Colombia’s Sonoras Mil, the project of Felipe Gómez Ossa, is a lack of...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2022
Impromptu
Angelo Debarre, born in St-Denis, France, starte d playing guitar at the age of eight. A member of the Manouche...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
17 Golden Greats
The liturgical chanting of the Tibetan monasteries is one of the great ‘endangered species’ of cultural preservation in Tibet, so...
Reviewed by Tom Hamilton in issue: October/2014
Addoh
On this, his debut album, guitarist and singer Oumar Konaté seeks to place himself among the ever-growing pantheon of Mali's...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
El Ndjoum
Algerian singer Sofiane Saidi and Mazalda, a rai-crazy band of seven funky exponents of electronic and acoustic sounds, collaborate successfully...
Reviewed by Marwan Shamiyeh in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
