Reviews
Northern Light, Gambian Night
The Gambian kora player Amadou Bansang Jobarteh awoke many Western listeners to African music two decades ago, and now Dawda,...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: October/2011
Rough Guide to African Lullabies
Judging by our own experiences, this is a winner. Our son was asleep before the third track had finished and...
Reviewed by Jill Turner in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Saigon Rock and Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974
What music did people dance to in the Saigon nightclubs and army bases in the last few years of the...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: July/2012
Kelmti Horra
Is this the sound of post-revolutionary Tunisia? Perhaps. Certainly it is a self-assured, outward-looking and proudly individual debut from a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012
What Pan Did for Me
Visitors to Port of Spain's legendary carnival will recall Panorama, the steel band competition at which bands – some up...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: November/2015
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
Mounqaliba
Natacha Atlas’ last album Ana Hina [reviewed in #52] was an extremely well judged step away from the Middle Eastern...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: October/2010
Koima
The West first heard the guitarist and singer Sidi Touré, from Gao in northern Mali, in 1996 when Stern’s released...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2012
Best of Baluji Shrivastav
The British-Indian composer Baluji Shrivastav is an outsider where Indian music is concerned. A multi-instrumentalist, he plays sitar as well...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: May/2017
South Africa’s Skylark
Of the many Makeba compilations on the market, this 45-track set may just be the most comprehensive of them all....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2010
