Reviews
Indus Raag: Music Beyond Borders
While the large-scale human suffering at the Partition of India (1947) is very well documented, very few people are aware...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Céu e Mar
Leila Pinheiro has an amazing CV; over 30 years she has recorded 16 albums; she has collaborated with the likes...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2012
Toma Tu Jabón Kapax
It's so rare these days to And music that sounds completely fresh, that is in any way different to everything...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Apr/May/2013
Baul-Fakir Gostho Lila: Conversations between Ma Joshoda and the Cowherds
It could be just happenstance, but I detect a reawakening of interest in traditional folk culture in the Indian subcontinent....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Bermuda: Gombay & Calypso 1953-1960
This double CD follows other Frémeaux recordings of 50s Caribbean popular music. But whereas the previous compilations Jamaica Mento and...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: March/2013
Ring Road
Mohamed Abozekry & Heejaz Extended
Based in France for over five years, the young Egyptian oud virtuoso Mohamed Abozekry recently presented his second album in...
Reviewed by Jean Berry in issue: June/2015
Desde Espana… La Columna de Fuego
Why it’s taken so long for this gem of an album to be reissued is one of those mysteries that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater Johnson in issue: January/February/2024
Live at St George’s
One of British folk’s best-loved dynamic duos (and now with a baby son attached), O’Hooley and Tidow marked ten years...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2021
Radyo Siwèl
This fresh, intriguing and unexpected set comes from a Haitian singersongwriter who had been away from the island for 20...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2018
Mogoya
The last time this reviewer interviewed Oumou Sangaré was in January 2009. She was about to release the album Seya...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2017
