Reviews
Bulgaria: The Art of the Gadulka
The gadulka is the Bulgarian version of the pear-shaped fiddle, found in various forms right across the eastern Mediterranean. Like...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2010
I’m a Dreamer
Prolific American singer-songwriter Josephine Foster has an eclectic back catalogue with projects including reinterpretations of 19th-century German art song, musical...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Aam Zameen: Common Ground
This really shouldn't work. Take the opening track, ‘Musst Musst’, made famous by the classic version by Nusrat Fateh Ali...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
100% Dynamite
Subtitled Ska, Soul, Rocksteady & Funk in Jamaica, this pioneering compilation was a hit when first released almost 20 years...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Rough Guide to Caribbean Cafe
The latest Caribbean music World Music Network compilation sets out to demonstrate the connections and parallels between island styles while...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: October/2012
Waltjim Bat Matilda
From the little label that introduced Gurrumul to a global audience, comes this overdue debut album from veteran Northern Territory...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2011
Frey
Hot on the heels of the release of Solana’s Mirage (reviewed in June 2022, #178) comes this haunting solo album...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2022
Regard Sur Le Passé
Classica Orchestra Afrobeat feat Sékouba Bambino & Baba Sissoko
This CD brings together two Guinean master musicians and griots – vocalist Sékouba Bambino (lead singer of the legendary Bembeya...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2015
Sound Portraits from Bulgaria: A Journey to a Vanished World 1966-1979
The arrival of this selection of recordings made in, mostly, Bulgaria in the 60s and 70s by US folk dance...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2020
Mauritanie
The liner notes declare with stark and admirable honesty that Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane isn't a marquee name in her...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
