Reviews
Visions of Iraq
Ahmed Mukhtar is a London-based Iraqi musician, renowned for his masterful playing of the oud. On Visions of Iraq, Mukhtar performs...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2019
Acoustic Tarab Alchemy
Odradek is a new label that produces and promotes artists on the simple basis of blind auditions from submitted demos....
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2018
The Sargasso Season
From the first few bars of the opening title-track, The Sargasso Season resounds with mellifluous beauty stemming from the pairing...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2022
Party Beats
This is another re-release from the Tabansi vault of 80s African music. The late Nkono Teles, who is perhaps better...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: November/2019
The Elizabethan Session
Soon after the various artists who collaborated on The Elizabethan Session conceived their evocation of the first Elizabethan age, they...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Aw Sa Yone Vol 2
In the early 1980s in the city of Thies in Senegal, a group recorded approximately two-and-a-half hours of music that...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2016
20 Years
‘As you know, we play music of various countries and peoples,’ says vocalist Mitia Khramtsov in Russian on the live...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
String on String
County Antrim harpist, fiddler and vocalist Amy McAllister's pleasingly bright and lyrical voice calls to mind the once ubiquitous Mary...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2017
