Reviews
Alazhymny/My Alash
This release is essential for fans of Tyvan throat singing. It features unique archive field recordings made in Tyva from...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: May/2022
Tender Blues
Yoshio Machida plays the steel pan, but those expecting to hear a Japanese-influenced answer to the steel band music of...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2016
Kerwanê
Kardeş Türküler celebrate their 21st anniversary with this ‘Best Of’ compilation. They have become such a feature of the musical...
Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: December/2015
Baba Toulenga
I'd wager that very few musicians under scrutiny in these pages, in this issue or any other, have graced the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011
Dzen
There are many projects that aim for a pan-African sound; they usually rely on collaboration between different cultures. Not for...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Tide
Hearing this new album by Zimbabwean funksters Mokoomba for the first time is a truly exciting experience, on a par...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Across the Pacific
The South Pasifika Sound Project
An Australian-based audio experiment, The South Pasifika Sound Project is the brainchild of musician-producer and traveller Paul Agar, who in...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: April/2021
Malkradessa
The Bissau Guinean singer Venilio Evangelista Pan was born in Portugal and lives in London. This, his debut album, is...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Djekpa La You
An exceptional live performer and a brilliant songwriter, it’s not hard to see why Ivorian Dobet Gnahoré was chosen to...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Lunar Tredd
Fimber Bravo may not be Trinidad's best-known steel pan player. His skill comes instead through experimentation, a creative approach that...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2021
