Reviews
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Patagonia (OST)
How do you get Carlos Gardél, Duffy and Bryn Terfel into the same box? By making an awful film about...
Reviewed by Chris Mos in issue: July/2011
One Takes
Authenticity is impossible to manufacture. Daymé Arocena might be only 24, but she has a soul and a sensuousness belying...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Sun Gong/Bring on the Sun
Four decades ago, zitherist Edward Larry Gordon made his debut on a small US label. Then, renamed Laraaji, he collaborated...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: June/2018
The Wait
Staples on the Australian music scene since the 1980s, when they were prominently featured in The Black Sorrows band, Aussie-Tongan...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2022
Carnatic Connection
Bollywood Brass Band featuring Jyotsna Srikanth
The Bollywood Brass Band's latest album is yet another outstanding tour de force. With the help of Jyotsna Srikanth's Karnatic...
Reviewed by Amar Dhillon in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Sambol Amore Migrante
If the tale that inspired this arresting album had been filmed by Federico Fellini, this would be its soundtrack. It's...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2020
Hidden People
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Hidden People is a neat title for Kathryn Roberts and her husband Sean Lakeman’s debut album. Both were well-known before...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Global Grove
Born in Papua New Guinea, with Aboriginal ancestry from the Djaberadjabera people of western Australia, Adrian Fabila Tjupurrula (aka Tjupurru)...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2015
In Sciô Ton
One of Italy's many musical treasures, trallalero is an urban group-harmony singing from Genoa, organised around at least eight singers...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Synthetic Hearts
Asanda Lusaseni Mvana, better known by her performing name Msaki, won Female Artist of the Year at the South African...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2023
