Reviews
Revolution Sabar
Aba Diop & The Yermande Family
The Senegalese percussionist Aba Diop is a master of the ancient sabar drum of the Wolof griots, a sound heard...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2024
Feyzullah Çinar Eserleri 1
If there’s any Turkish record label going to pay tribute to the Alevi-Bektaşi minstrel Feyzullah Çinar then it’s got to...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/2024
Birth & Death
Scottish jazz saxophonist-composer Phil Bancroft founded the Myriad Streams label as a grass-roots alternative to the overwhelming choices of platforms...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2024
Caçada Noturna
With his fourth solo album for the Swedish label, the Afro-Brazilian minstrel from Salvador reinforces a decade-long recording relationship and...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2024
Curyman II
‘Curyman’, the opening track of Rogê’s (Roger José Cury) follow-up, revisits the final, brief ‘O Vento’ from 2023’s Curyman (reviewed...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: February/March/2025
Once We Had a Home
The Rohingya people are among the most persecuted on the planet. In 1982, they were driven from their ancestral homes...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: July/2024
Music For a Revolution Vol 1: Guinea's Syliphone Recording Label (1967–1973)
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
With Music For a Revolution Vol 1, record label Radio Martiko is giving listeners an extraordinary window into a particular...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: September/2025
Chat Iskandaria
Lebanese singer Nouhad Wadie Haddad, better known simply as Fairuz, falls into that select category of ‘living legends’. After recording...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: September/2025
Sunce Te Gleda
With a title translating as ‘Sun is Looking at You’, the album cover hints that this is a sequence of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2025
La Noche
Radio Tarifa were one of the great Spanish bands of the 90s, their blend of Spanish, North African and medieval...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/2026
