Reviews
South India: Flowers and Ashes Hymns to Shiva
This is a disc of South Indian (Karnatic) singing in the temples of Tamil Nadu, the large state at the...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Apr/May/2010
Nhaoul’
For 20 years, from 1980, Kamilya Jubran was the voice of Sabreen, a Palestinian group known for their songs of...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: June/2013
The Thrush in the Storm
It's been five years since the last studio offering from Irish supergroup Dervish, which makes The Thrush in the Storm...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Rendez-vous Barbès
The opening number, ‘Sidi Yahia-bnef Paris’, effortlessly mixes elements of Gnawa trance with a low-slung growling rock riff that The...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2010
Eureka!
Barcelona has long been a hotbed of musical experimentation, producing an almost ridiculously long list of top artists from rumba...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
The Crowing
A striking album of fresh explorations into the more obscure corners and bridleways of English music and folklore, The Crowing...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2018
Devils and Wonders in Bali
At several points, this disc of Balinese gamelan recordings made in 1974 had me punching the air in excitement. There’s...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: Apr/May/2011
Braziliance!
‘First came Gilberto, then Jobim, and now MARCOS VALLE BRAZILIANCE!’ runs the breathless blurb on the original sleeve of this...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: April/2020
A Jamaican In Cairo
There are those who will tell you that we are witnessing the sonic equivalent of Francis Fukuyama’s ‘end of history’...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2011
Abrazo
Warm, tango-inspired runnings from the Paris-based duo of accordionist Vincent Peirani and soprano saxophonist Emile Parisien, whose palpable rapport has...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2020
