Reviews
Kasbatek
‘Gnawa funk’, a blend of sounds from ‘the Orient, from the Maghreb, chaabi melodies and Gnawa rhythms’ is the proclamation...
Reviewed by Nik Hann in issue: April/2024
Ma Nature
Singer and environmental campaigner Olga del Madagascar hails from, as you would expect, Madagascar. The East African island is festooned...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2016
Funeral Songs
There's a bitter aftertaste to this album. The latest in Glitterbeat's acclaimed Hidden Musics series, it should be an absorbing...
Reviewed by Timothy Clarke-Romain in issue: June/2020
Are Possible
Six years after the release of Plainly Mistaken, banjo maestro Nathan Bowles has once again partnered with double-bassist Casey Toll...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: September/2024
Sunwise
The third solo album from Scottish composer and smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul, Sunwise feels like the start of a bolder...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: August/2025
Don’t Give Up
Born in Kinshasa, Jason Tamba, who began playing guitar at the age of seven on a homemade instrument, went on...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2022
Odisea
The third album from the German flamenco guitarist Andreas Arnold sees him returning to the classical and jazz improvisation that...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2019
La Samba Contemporain: Samba Recordings by CPC UMES, 1998-2007
‘E bom Cantar’ (It’s time? to sing) is just one of 36 versions of contemporary samba on this dedicated compilation...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Ked’ Vojačik Narukoval
I love the design of this album. With its distressed sleeve and retro typography, it looks like something I might...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2019
O Skaros: Flute Music
Three distinct pastoral flutes, made of wood or reed, h a ve traditionally been played in Greece: the floyera and...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: June/2010
