Reviews
Prospect Hill
A founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Flemons continues his exploration of the African-American songster tradition on his solo...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2015
Will You?
Shujaat Husain Khan, Kevin Hays, Katayoun Goudarzi, Tim Ries & Dibyarka Chatterjee
Perhaps there is something about the texts of the great Persian-language poet Rumi that chime with the times we are...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2017
Invocación
Some aficionados of Latin American music can listen to the swaying rhythms of salsa or the rippling beats of son...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2015
Diwan
Shahbaz Hussain & Helen Anahita Wilson
East meets West, a musical plot line as near-universal as boy meets girl, provides the basis for this new collaboration...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Anomaly
This is the first solo release from the British sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun. It features a large cast...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2022
La Bodega
Totó la Momposina celebrates her 69th birthday with an irresistible disc of diverse Colombian genres, all rooted in her hometown...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Zone 6, Agege
Soaring highlife horns and harmonies jostle with hip-hop vocals and reggae rhythms to create a thoroughly engaging and very modern...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: April/2022
Regions
The brains behind Ellis Island Sound (Pete Astor and David Sheppard) are those of musical veterans; they have been collaborating...
Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: June/2014
Amoreamaro
There many reasons to admire singer Maria Mazzotta: for her voice, of course, so brilliant, intimate and dramatic; for her...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: May/2020
