Reviews
Rwanda is My Home
This is a very enjoyable yet remarkably melancholic release by a four-piece acoustic group from Rwanda. Part of the charm...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2015
Family
Eneida Marta is perhaps the best known female singer from Guinea-Bissau, a diva whose golden, wide-ranging voice – an instrument...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2023
Tanguísimo
This nine-CD Piazzolla bumper-pack gathers in one accordion-like sleeve a significant sampling of the recordings Astor Piazzolla made with various...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Brexit Blues
Certainly not a blues compilation in the sense that might be commonly expected, this set mourns in advance the passing...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: March/2017
Diwan of Beauty and Odd
Singer and oud player Dhafer Youssef is one of music's unrelenting explorers. From his roots in Tunisia he has travelled...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: December/2016
Gael Vision
Violinist Joe O’Donnell was a force to be reckoned with in the Irish music scene of the 1970s, colliding traditional...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: December/2020
The Devil's Brides
Yale Strom is both a researcher into the history of Jewish klezmer music and an excellent violinist. This CD features...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2012
Indigo Soul
A confident and exhilarating album, Indigo Soul suffers slightly from a trade description issue. Unnati is presented as a ‘London...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2020
Big Blue Desert
It is a measure of Mehdi Haddab's intensity and generosity that the oud player conjures an imaginary galaxy in the...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
For Tradition Turn to Nedunuri
These three discs comprise an entire concert performance by one of Karnatic music's greatest singers of the 20th century, Nedunuri...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2015
