Reviews
Diagnostic
Ibrahim Maalouf is one of those quiet, unsung achievers: an in-demand session musician whose clean, spare trumpet playing has sprinkled...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2012
Portraits 30
The Meto Brothers Band | The Sowa Musical Dynasty of Piątkowa
Polish Radio's series of releases called MuzykaZródel (Sources of Polish Folk Music) are a superb introduction to the country's regional...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2015
Producing
London-based producer duo Gypsy Hill – two of Batov Records' co-founders, DJ Kobayashi and Herbert Newbert – are that delectable...
Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: April/2019
Tuareg Music of the Southern Sahara
For younger listeners who take for granted easy access to global music, it's hard to imagine the giddy feeling of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020
The Prodigal Son
Ry Cooder's first band, back in the 1960s, was called the Rising Sons; here the prodigal comes home by returning...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2018
Nun V’Annammurate
The opening song of this album is really enticing. A delicate mandolin melody, accompanied by guitar introduces the voice of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2024
Ibokwe
After singing with South African kwaito pioneers Bongo Maffin, Thandiswa Mazwai's 2004 solo debut Zabalaza marked something of a departure....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Solo
In instrumental folk, it's rare that a solo album is actually a solo album. An album of ‘solo fiddle’ will...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: May/2018
Del Diablo y del Angel
Two of Astor Piazzolla’s great suites – Angels’ and ‘Devils’ – evolved ove r many years and, as a consequ–...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010
Djangologie
Had he been American, Django Reinhardt would surely have received the Hollywood biopic treatment by now. The story of how...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2010
