Reviews
SÓS
Mercedes Peón is an enormous talent who has taken creative risks with each of her albums, boldly merging the experimental...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: March/2011
Wandering Stars: Songs from Gimpel's Lemberg Yiddish Theatre 1906-1910
This extraordinary collection of Yiddish theatre songs, produced by Julian Futter and Mike Aylward, is the outcome of a ten-year...
Reviewed by Helen Beer in issue: October/2014
Prodigal Son
Released in 2007, this album is hailed by many as Simpson's finest hour. Recorded at the Pure Studio the year...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2019
Sleepless Nights
Sleepless Nights is a palatable musical aperitif for those uninitiated into Indian classical music, as well as being pleasant drive¬time...
Reviewed by Kulbir Natt in issue: July/2010
Sila Kang
On a first listen to this debut album from Nottingham-based Gambian musician Sura Susso, the word that kept coming to...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2011
100 Strings: Indian Ragas Full Circle Vol 1
This album by one of the best-known students of the legendary Shivkumar Sharma is a masterclass in santoor playing. In...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: May/2019
Diasporas
Ibrahim Maalouf’s family fled the civil war in Lebanon in the early 1980s to settle in the suburbs of Paris....
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011
Broadside
Bellowhead are a heavy metal outfit, Reich-like minimalists, vocal harmony virtuosi, a brass-blasting jazz combo, a shanty crew and squeezebox-driven...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
African Anthology: African Rhythms
The third in the African Anthology series continues to feature music predominantly sourced from the former Portuguese colonies, plus some...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
