Reviews
Navega Mundos
Fusion albums often throw out intriguing hints at what the planet's future might sound like: free-form, multi-faceted, deliciously deracinated. Laura...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2016
Hongo Calling
Billed as the new soul voice of Cameroon, Blick Bassy is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and percussionist whose Bassa-language solo debut...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011
Radical Raptors
Roberto Zanisi is a well-known virtuoso on a variety of Eastern Mediterranean string instruments, like the bouzouki and cümbüş, with...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: April/2021
Un Canto por México, Vol 1
Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade is one of those superstars who makes the rest of us feel idle and talentless. She...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2020
Al Viento
Even without the different surnames, you’d be forgiven for not realising that Pedro Soler and Gaspar Claus are father and...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Rare and Glorious
Ravi Shankar is undoubtedly the world’s best-known Indian musician. His name has not only become synonymous with his instrument, the...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Voices and Percussions
Brazilian percussionist, arranger and composer Silvano Michelino's project Boca de Tambor is a journey rich in timbres, rhythms and textures,...
Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Salulandela
Back in the late 1980s, the tight, chirpy hits of pop-fusion outfit Ilanga were a staple of Zimbabwean radio. The...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: Apr/May/2011
The Stone Turntable
Transglobal Underground were there at the start, shaking up the London club scene with their beats-driven fusion and proudly hippy...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2011
