Reviews
Breathing Raga
Breathing Raga is heaven, a full dhrupad performance of raag Bhairav, from alap to bandish (composition). The singer here is...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: September/2024
Mahavélouz
La Réunion’s maloya music has provided fertile ground for electronic producers looking to inject the genre’s trancelike rhythms onto sub-heavy...
Reviewed by Timothy Clarke-Romain in issue: April/2025
Terceiro Mundo
The opening sound bite of Terceiro Mundo, ‘EntreMundos’, refers back to the São Paulo group’s 2017 second album of the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2024
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Driss El Maloumi Trio & Watar Quintet
Moroccan oud player Driss El Maloumi has cropped up frequently in these pages, both with a couple of Top of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2024
Heavier Yet (Lays the Crownless Head)
Becoming leader of Egypt 80, his legendary father Fela’s band, at the tender age of 14, Seun Kuti has always...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: November/2024
Tidiani Koné et le T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo
Tidiani Koné et le T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo
Malian multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger Tidiani Koné was one of the key figures in the development of modern African music....
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: September/2025
Só Ouço
What was originally supposed to be a semester of student exchange in Rio de Janeiro, turned into a year and...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: September/2025
Transform Me Then Into A Fish
Carthy celebrates his 84th birthday on May 21 with a new album that echoes, after 60 years, his first. Transform...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2025
Tales of Earth and Sun
The Iranian group Rastak have been going for over 25 years, although in recent years they’ve relocated from Iran to...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2025
Trésor Magnétique
When legendary musician, poet and novelist Francis Bebey passed away suddenly in 2001, Cameroon lost one of its most celebrated...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: August/2025
