Reviews
Manghoua Foura
The Wassoulou region of southern Mali has an incredible record for producing great female singers. They were celebrated with Sterns’...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2012
Shimmer Gold
The second release from Estonian trio Trad.Attack! picks up where their debut left off. ‘Talgo’ opens ferociously with a pounding...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2017
Tides
A collaboration between LA rapper Eligh and Indian sarod player Alam Khan, Tides is the second such album from the...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: January/2021
Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions
The friendship between Seu Jorge and Rogê goes back 25 years when the two aspiring musicians met at a gig...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2020
Childhood Home
In hindsight, it seems like a natural, perhaps inevitable, undertaking. Put the son, a multiple-Grammy-winning, world renowned singer-songwriter and guitarist,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Al Mutamid de Sevilla
There are many excellent recordings of Arab-Andalusian music, including dozens on the label Pneuma, directed by the Spanish musicologist Eduardo...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: October/2018
The Art of Sinawi: A Shamanic Legacy
The jazz-like sinawi is one of the most intriguing genres of Korean music. Originally the instrumental soundtrack to large-scale shamanic...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2016
Abbar el Hamada
Since the death of the great Mariem Hassan, Aziza Brahim has become the most important voice for the Saharawi people,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2016
