Reviews
Songbirds: Albanian Music from 78s 1924-1948
The great dreamer of European unity, Stefan Zweig, speaking of poetics and spiritual power, once wrote that ‘The Skipetares (Albanians)...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2021
Zozodinga
One of the founding fathers of Touareg ishumar music, or desert blues in European marketing-speak, Oumbadougou returns with his first...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Hungarian World Music: 70s-80s
For anyone interested in Hungarian music, this is a very useful overview of the last 40 years, since the beginning...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2011
Can't Sit Down
CJ Chenier is the son of the late, great Clifton Chenier, the black Louisiana accordion player whose zydeco recordings on...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Song of Lahore
It's sad that the conductor of The Sachal Ensemble, Najat Ali, still feels it necessary to state that ‘we will...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Elo
Four years after her last album, Samba Meu, Elis Regina's daughter (as she now allows herself to be called) returns...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2012
Remembering Nusrat
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Group | Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook
In 2007, ten years after the death of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, his nephew and disciple Rahat Fateh Ali Khan...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2011
We’re Usually A Lot Better Than This
If they really are ‘usually a lot better than this’ then it's difficult to imagine what Tim O'Brien and Darrell...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2013
