Reviews
Céu e Mar
Leila Pinheiro has an amazing CV; over 30 years she has recorded 16 albums; she has collaborated with the likes...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2012
Cut it Down, Count the Rings
Copper Viper's PR describes them as ‘an acoustic folk group from London,’ which isn't wrong but you could certainly be...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2019
A Chant About the Beauty of the Moon at Night: Hawaiian Steel Guitar Masters 1913-1921
With Spanish guitars having been well established in the Hawaiian islands since the mid-1800s, local 16-year-old guitarist Joseph Kekuku is...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2022
Original Broadway Cast Recording
World Circuit protected the integrity of its multi-million selling brand of Cuban nostalgia vigorously, refusing large sums to license Buena...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2025
Mosawi Swiri
The youngest son of the late Mahmoud Gania, a Gnawa maalem (master) of singing and gimbri, the 23-year-old Houssam is...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: May/2019
Baul-Fakir Gostho Lila: Conversations between Ma Joshoda and the Cowherds
It could be just happenstance, but I detect a reawakening of interest in traditional folk culture in the Indian subcontinent....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
The Calais Sessions
Various Artists, Featuring the Musicians of the Calais ‘Jungle’
One weekend in September 2015, a group of international musicians based in the UK visited the now-demolished refugee and migrant...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
African Metropolitan Music
Over the past decade, the celebrated architect David Adjaye has visited every African country, photographing the architecture of a full...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2012
What Goes Up
Some years ago a collective of local musicians came together in a series of weekly jam sessions in a West...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2017
Starshine
Taiwan sadly remains an afterthought in the world music community so having another A Moving Sound album arrive in 2022,...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: December/2022
