Reviews
Barbara Fairouz
This is a charming and very personal album that brings together the music of two iconic divas: the tragic French...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2015
Miri
One of the principle instruments of Mali's griot storytelling tradition is the ngoni (lute), and more than anyone else, Bassekou...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2019
Music of the Santal Tribe: Field Recordings by Deben Bhattacharya
This album not only has some wonderful music but is also a valuable ethnographic and historical record of the culture...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2014
Terry Riley In C
Sometimes there is a collision of two different musical worlds that just fits so well that you can't believe it...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Politiki
As a guitarist and singer-songwriter who worked alongside the great Ali Farka Touré and Afel Bocoum, Mamadou Kelly is practically...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2017
Orchestre National de Mauritanie
Orchestre National de Maurianie
For a national orchestra, this combo had previously had a remarkably small discography: one 7” single to show for an...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Narrante
Golfam Khayam & Mona Matbou Riahi
This album was simultaneously released in Iran on Hermes Records and internationally on ECM. Both of these are ‘connoisseur’ labels...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: October/2016
Written in Water
There's a sense of loss as well as near-chaotic celebration about this collaboration between musicians of the Scottish Highlands and...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: December/2018
Rye Groove
Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band was born to party. Their unstoppable, urgent playing, mixed with rock-style stage performances has earned...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2015
Trikitixaren Historia Txiki Bat
Kepa Junkera will be 50 in April. He has been playing trikitixa, the effervescent diatonic accordion music of the Basques,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2015
