Reviews
Do Claro ao Breu
Sopa de Pedra are a Portuguese vocal ten-piece that got together ten years ago – which some may know already...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2022
Tiganeasca
French Gypsy band Les Yeux Noirs take their name from a Django Reinhardt tune. They formed around fiddlers and singers...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2011
Pencaitland
The seven-strong folk collective from Edinburgh who have made their name blending Celtic folk songs with the old¬time string band...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Grand Isle
Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
America is a many textured land. Below the stars and stripes lies a kaleidoscope of cultures. One of the more...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2011
We be All Africans
Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids
African-American jazz musicians were undoubtedly the pioneers of what's become known as world music. In the 1950s, Dizzy Gillespie's music...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2016
Luuma
Sahad | Sahad & the Nataal Patchwork
Five years after his self-assured debut album (reviewed in July 2017, #129), Senegalese singer Sahad Sarr returns with a hybrid...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: June/2022
Last Days of Meaning
Nitin Sawhney is as much a philosopher as he is a composer. This time, his thoughtful and melodic songs are...
Reviewed by Andy King in issue: July/2011
Hunting Eagles Catching Swans
Gao Hong & Friends | Lin Shicheng & Gao Hong
Lin Shicheng (1922-2005), the late master of the Pudong School of pipa playing, was one of the most highly regarded...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: January/2021
