Reviews
Akustik
Sinan Cem Eroğlu | Sinan Cem Eroglu & Muhlis Berberoglu
This is the fourth solo album from the Hamburg-based Turkish multi-instrumentalist and member of the band Niyaz. It brings together...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2022
Ramón en Palenque
Papayeras is the name given to Colombian brass bands, full of horns and percussion. In their native country they are...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2015
Akal
Tarwa N-Tiniri were born in Ouarzazate, Morocco’s ‘door of the desert’ and Akal marks their second album. Its title translates...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: July/2024
Road Soda
This collaboration between two Alaskan-born artists – fiddle player Tory Dugan and Scottish harpist Cheyenne Brown – straddles multiple styles....
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2016
Dindin
From the age of eight, Kimi Djabaté was forced to sing and play balafón at weddings and baptisms in Guinea-Bissau...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2023
Créateur de la Valse Musette et de la Java
It's not often a cynical old music hack gets to dust off epithets like heart-warming, but this pair of records...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2019
Coffee Creek
What does modern bluegrass sound like? It sounds like The Slocan Ramblers – who sound a lot like the great...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2016
Tibet: Music & Prayers from the Yellow Hats Monasteries, Tashilhunpo, Ganden, Séra
Since the early 1960s, most releases by the 15th-century Reformed School Gelugpa Tibetan Buddhist monks have been recorded at their...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: May/2016
Sharayet El Disco: Egyptian 80s Disco & Boogie Cassette Tracks
Anyone who travelled in the Arabic world from the 1970s through to earlier this century will recall how cassettes were...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2022
Rising Sun Melodies
Ola Belle Reed was born in 1916, in rural Appalachia and grew up in a family so poor they didn't...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
