Reviews
New Orleans Blues, Soul & Jazz Gumbo
Inspired by the success of the HBO TV series Treme, a drama serial set in New Orleans and brimming with...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2012
American Radical Patriot
There is a certain irony that America’s great hobo poet, whose songs packed such a punch because they were so...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2014
OK OK OK
Having released 60 albums since 1967, Afro-Brazilian legend Gilberto Gil shows no sign of slowing down with his latest project,...
Reviewed by Julia Baker in issue: March/2019
West Meets East: Indian Music and its Influence on the West
The bottom has rather dropped out of the market for world music compilations but just occasionally a valuable collection can...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2020
New York–Addis– London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965–1975
Keyboardist, vibra¬phone player and bandleader Mulatu Astatke was an early subject for Francis Falceto’s acclaimed Éthiopiques series, and 14 fine...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings From the 1970s and 1980s
After presumably running out of crates to dig through in West Africa for Soundway's splendid series of 70s archive recordings...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Music in the Realm of Fireflies: Improvisations for Peace and Healing
This is meditative music, created by a group of Japanese and Japan-based musicians playing Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Korean and Mongolian...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: December/2024
Afghan Music
Vocalists Zohreh Jooya and Hossein Arman are exiled Afghans performing with the Afghan En– semble, a traditional-style group rather like...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2011
De Kaboul à Bamako
This is a compilation of somewhat random tracks from across the Middle East and Africa that have been packaged as...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2020
