Reviews
Avgi: Live in Heraklion Walls
Lyra virtuoso Stelios Petrakis is one of several talented young musicians to have emerged from the teaching and performance workshops...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: Apr/May/2015
Yeraz
Jivan Gasparyan Duduk Ensemble
There are few instruments as beautiful as the Armenian duduk. Its plaintive, reedy tone seems to exude melancholy. Djivan (or...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Live in Lesotho
In December 1980 the African businessman Victor Maloi arranged a concert for Masekela and Miriam Makeba in Lesotho, a country...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020
The Ethiopian: Open the Gate of Zion
After recording solo ska singles at Studio One, Leonard Dillon formed The Ethiopians harmony trio in the rock steady era...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Jaipur to Cairo
Cuatro Puntos Resident Musicians
Using traditional music as the medium to compose Western classical music, Jaipur to Cairo is a collection of works by...
Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: October/2019
80s World Music Classics: When The World Was Young
Like the compilers of this collection, back in the 1980s I turned to the sounds of Africa and other parts...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: June/2011
Lady Mondegreen
Once upon a time, Dani Aubert and Ian George spent ten months driving around Europe, the UK and Ireland with...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2022
Planetario
The distinctive characteristic of Novalima has always been their focus on reinvigorating Afro-Peruvian music with new electronic fusions. On their...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
