Reviews
Mariachi Beat
Mexico City's Los De Abajo first made an impression when David Byrne signed them to his Luaka Bop label. The...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Splendour in the Grass
The 12-piece, which its founder Thomas Lauder¬dale suggests would make a great United Nations' house band, has concocted its fourth...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Flight
Afro Celt Sound System's 20th anniversary comeback, 2016's The Source, was a big success, winning them a Songlines Music Award...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Officium Novum
Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble
In 1993 The Hilliard Ensemble released an album of early music polyphony with Jan Garbarek improvisi ng a saxophone line...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Small Pieces
With a style essentially immersed in Indian music, the third release from this duo tells stories in song encompassing myriad...
Reviewed by Wendy Scott in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
We Have One Destiny
Ayuune Sule discovered his passion for playing the kologo — a two-stringed lute — learning from the musicians who would...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: June/2018
Best of Mariza
This really is exactly what it says: highlights from the career of the extraordinary fado singer who released her debut...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2014
The Nefes of the Bektâshî Sufi Brotherhood in Istanbul and the Balkans
This album explores peripheries, spirituality and history. Arising from the seventh Bîrûn workshop in Ottoman music organised by neyzen (a...
Reviewed by Thomas Graves in issue: October/2019
