Reviews
In My Own Time
Karen Dalton, who died in 1993 at age 55, was for a brief period in the 1960s the darling dark...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022
Feyzullah Çinar Eserleri 1
If there’s any Turkish record label going to pay tribute to the Alevi-Bektaşi minstrel Feyzullah Çinar then it’s got to...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/2024
Fatteliku: Live in Athens
Youssou N’Dour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar
In 1987, when it looked as though global sounds, African music in particular, would take a major share of the...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: November/2015
Tanou
There are few more ancient instruments than Mali’s six-stringed, individually bowed n’dan, or ‘traveller’s harp’. Fewer still whose existence is...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2024
Tientalaw
Zani Diabaté's first name may not be as instantly recognisable as his last (many of the Diabaté dan are griots)...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: October/2012
The Playhouse Sessions
‘How should I behave when I have a violin in my hand?’ asks the dazzling Norwegian violinist Bjarte Eike in...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/February/2023
World Defeats the Grandfathers: Swinging Swahili Rumba 1982-1986
Issa Juma & the Super Wanyika Stars
This is another in a series of authoritative collections of golden-age rumba issued by Sterns. Whilst their recent anthologies have...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2010
Africa Express Presents…
Africa Express is a loose cooperative of like minds (with Damon Albarn somewhere near the hub) that takes Western rock...
Reviewed by Mark Ellingham in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Where the Soul Never Dies
Mike Block is one of the bravest, most intriguing musicians on the American fusion scene. A cellist and member of...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2021
Humanicity
The Upsetter is back, and this time he's wearing a curly yellow clown's wig and sounding as if he's left...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2013
