Reviews
Weapon of Choice
Airileke Ingram is a Melbourne-based percussionist/producer who's been omnipresent in the Australian world music scene since the mid-90s. Raised in...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Apr/May/2013
London’s Calling
The two weeks of sport at the core of the London Olympics seem to have spawned a summer-long fiesta of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Do Not Obey
It's 20 years since Murat Ertel and Levent Akman founded the Istanbul-based psychedelic band Baba Zula. Firmly ensconced in that...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2016
Dilhayat Kalfa: Eserleri Classics
As well as being a composer of distinction and an instrumentalist in the Ottoman court at the beginning of the...
Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: May/2018
Everyday Salama
Manu Chao seems to have become for the 21st century what Bob Marley was to the late 20th century in...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Frankie and the No-Go Road
A concept album that follows the trials and tribulations of an everyman hero named Frankie in his struggles through life,...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2016
Havana Club Rumba Sessions
Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band
Beginning with the evocative, unaccompanied beat of the wooden clavé, the base of all rumba – an elemental Cuban genre...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2016
Manginburru Bininj
An Aboriginal band from the remote Arnhem Land outstation of Mama-dawerre, Wildflower are following the musical path pioneered by their...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2010
Lalehzar
Javid Afsari Rad was the virtuoso santur player of the renowned group Zarbang and, while this is essentially a solo...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Toronto Mambo
Sean Bellaviti & Conjunto Lacalu
Pianist, band leader and principal arranger Sean Bellaviti and long-time collaborator, percussionist Luis Orbegoso, are both leading lights of the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2017
