Reviews
Lunar Love
Mop Mop, an Italian instrumental quartet, released the very impressive Isle of Magic album back in 2013. There, they looked...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2016
Kel Tinariwen
You know Tinariwen. Hypnotic Touareg assouf music from bluesy electric guitars, slithering out of Saharan sand-encrusted amps and accompanied by...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/February/2023
Salsa Vintage
Based in the Netherlands since 1992, Venezuelan percussionist Gerardo Rosales has played with such big-hitters as Oscar D’León, Jimmy Bosch,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2017
Mysterious Duality – Just Me
Jayanthi Kumaresh is one of India’s leading performers of the veena, an ancient lute which produces a rich and deeply...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2011
Efekt Motla
Recorded in Havana's EGREM studios (the birthplace of many a classic Cuban album) and released halfway across the globe in...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: March/2020
Habibi: Algérie de ma Jeunesse
What a charming CD this is, evoking an alluring world of white linen jackets, pencil moustaches, fez hats and nightclubs...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Odissea
The intrepid BandAdriatica have produced a sort of pan-Mediterranean album here, exploring the theme of migration, very visible in their...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2019
Medicine Songs
Buffy Sainte-Marie was one of the breakout stars of the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene. Not only was she...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2018
Baile Bucanero
The first Ondatrópica album was recorded in Colombia's legendary Discos Fuentes recording studio. Unfortunately – criminally, in fact – that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2017
Helsinki
This is a musical marriage made in heaven between an accordionist (Lepistö) of exceptional elegance and beauty and a bass...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
