Reviews

Spring

Katayoun Goudarzi & Shujaat Husain Khan

The joy in making music within the mystic branch of Islam known as Sufism, and the verses of the 13th-century...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Apr/May/2014

The First Ten Years

Le Trio Joubran

The three brothers Samir, Wissam and Adnan who make up Le Trio Joubran are undoubtedly the crown princes of the...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2013

At Big Pink

Bengali Bauls

This is a historic recording first released on the American Buddha label in 1968 and it's great that Floating World...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2017

Horizon

Anyango

Beginning as it does with the out-of-place Xhosa hymn, ‘Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika’, this otherwise delightful album gets off to an...

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Origins

Treacherous Orchestra

The debut album from Treacherous Orchestra is a blistering, swaggering and infectious affair. Consisting predominantly of pipes, fiddle, guitar, bass...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Apr/May/2012

Del Diablo y del Angel

Mi Loco Tango

Two of Astor Piazzolla’s great suites – Angels’ and ‘Devils’ – evolved ove r many years and, as a consequ–...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010

Corazón

Santana

The Latin-rock hybrid Carlos Santana created in the late 60s was world music 20 years before the term became common...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2014

El Aaiún Egdat

Mariem Hassan

It is only appropriate to explain that I first heard Mariem Hassan’s declamatory voice opening her new album on a...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Liguriani

Liguriani

A strip of mixed people and sounds, Liguria lies in Italy's north-west, a region squeezed between rugged hill tops and...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: October/2011

Leave to Remain

Wara

With members of the group hailing from Cuba, Venezuela, Chile, Ghana, Congo, Spain, Argentina, not to mention the UK, it's...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sept/2013