Formed of 11 black Brazilian women and non-binary people, the Funmilayo Afrobeat Orquestra began through a collective frustration over the...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2023
Messrs Rose, Sartin and Kirkpatrick are three crack players whose music has been heard far and wide – whether in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Do you wanna feel good? Raghu Dixit does. He has an exuberant optimism that epitomises modern India. While announcing in...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2010
Take a handful of insanely talented Irish musicians, two accordions, guitar, fiddle, bodhrán, piano and vocals. Add 14 years of...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2016
Definitive collections inevitably upset someone, and any attempt to sum up Milton Nascimento’s 45-year career in two CDs will be...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2012
Terakaft cannot be numbered among the legion of Tinariwen imitators to have emerged in recent years; they were there at...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2015
New Hoyle is a figment of Brad Fielder’s musical imagination. Inspired by a tiny, no-longer-extant town in north-west Oklahoma where...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2022
What do you do when you’ve performed from atop the Eiffel Tower, sold out such prestigious venues as the Barbican...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2022
Félix Lajkó is Hungary's most groundbreaking violinist and this is one of his best recordings in years. He inhabits an...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Born in Latium's historic town of Sora, the Italian-French singer and diatonic accordionist Giuliano Gabriele here presents his second album,...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2016
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