Reviews
Black Smoke
Born on remote Groote Eylandt, the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off coastal Arnhem Land, Emily Wurramara's family...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2016
Jayme Stone's Folklife
An extension of his 2015 Lomax Project, the renowned Canadian banjoist Jayme Stone now presents us with Jayme Stone's Folklife,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2017
Parampara Festival 13.3.1992
Held in Berlin in 1992, Parampara Festival brought together Indian teachers and their international students to showcase the global spread...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: January/February/2022
Cohesion
The third full-length offering from London-based producer Masaaki Yoshida sees him turn his hand to material inspired by Bollywood soundtracks...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2018
Carry Fire
The follow-up to 2014's Lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar is hardly a world music album in any conventional sense. But...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2017
Tülay German & François Rabbath
Tülay German & François Rabbath
Vocalist Tülay German cut her teeth as a jazz singer in Istanbul nightclubs in the early 60s before bursting onto...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021
Aspaklaria
Mordechai Beck & the Aspaklaria Group
The word aspaklaria has contrasting definitions in the Jewish Talmud: one rabbi defines it as a mirror, while another claims...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: November/2018
Ilanga (The Sun)
Afrika Mamas' striking new album connects listeners to the roots of Zulu culture. The six female singers who make up...
Reviewed by Franki Clemens in issue: June/2021
Wouty
On first listen this sounds like a very pleasant, semi-acoustic, low-key, album of relaxed, modern Senegalese music. After several plays,...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Get a Life
Warren G Harding is an odd name to choose for a band name. History regards that particular US president as...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
