Reviews
Niepraudzivaya
Hajda Banda are one of the best traditional bands to have emerged in Poland in recent years. Led by Belarusian...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2025
Album No. 1
Les Abranis were founded in the late 1960s by singer Karim Abdenour and organ player Shamy El Vaz, two young...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2025
Café Kállai
Erno Kállai Kiss Jr & His Gypsy Band | Tcha Limberger's Budapest Gypsy Orchestra
You wait for ages, and then two discs of sumptuous Hungarian Gypsy music come along at once. Both of these...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2015
Music of Central Asia Vol Nine: In the Footsteps of Babur
This ninth CD in the impressive Aga Khan Trust for Culture series of music from Central Asia takes Babur, the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2010
Amalgam
Amjad, Amaan & Ayaan Ali Khan & Elmira Darvarova
Ever since Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin recorded the violin and sitar duos of West Meets East in the 1960s,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Fern Girl & Ice Man
What we have here are two collections of old and familiar song forms. But they are reconstituted with observant, contemporary...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2016
Minyo Groove 1963–1979: Japan Meets Latin, Rock, Rare Groove & Funky Vibes
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Japanese minyo (traditional folk songs) have been part of the country’s cultural fabric for centuries. Often connected to themes of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: February/March/2026
Cosas Raras
Rolando Bruno y El Grupo Arevalo
‘I, who was born with Videla / I, who was born without power, I, who fought for freedom but could...
Reviewed by Juan José Relmucao in issue: September/2024
Ishumar 2: New Tuareg Guitars
The second post-Tinariwen compilation of Touareg bands from Mali, Niger and Algeria promises to point out ‘new directions’ in the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2011
La Caminadora
Produced in under a month, this seven-track album of covers is a joyous whistle-stop tour through the energy and vibrancy...
Reviewed by Tutku Barbaros in issue: May/2019
