Reviews
Nara
Senem Diyici has a long career making music, having started recording her songs in 1969, before going on to develop...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: April/2023
Acoustic
Oumou Sangaré's label have certainly got some mileage out of her brilliant 2017 album, Mogoya. It was followed a year...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Astor Piazzolla
The praise lavished on the three late Astor Piazzolla albums on Nonesuch is in part due to producer Kip Hanrahan's...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2012
Tjamuku Ngurra: Grandfather's Country
Aboriginal desert reggae-rock has a history dating back to the late-70s, when Central Australian bands such as No Fixed Address...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
DJ Click y Colelo Identidad Mapuche
The Mapuche are the sole surviving indigenous community in the Southern Cone. Settled mainly in the temperate Andean regions of...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2020
Kaftan d’Alma
Maybe we can blame a common Mediterranean feeling working its way into a shared culture, but it is quite interesting...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2021
Carnaval de Pernambuco
Writing a one-star review is never nice, especially when you know that the artists’ hearts are in the right place,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2022
Sukotherapy
Maria Pomianowska is the leader of the revival of the suka, or knee-fiddle, in Poland. It’s played like the Cretan...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Inter-Celtic
Is Galician piper Carlos Núñez the most enthusiastic, optimistic, energetic musician on earth? From the first blow on this 16-track...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2014
Sufiyan
This is quite an extraordinary project for fans of the Turkish ney – the reed flute that is at the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2012
