Reviews
Apikorsim/Heretics
From New York, The Klezmatics have been shaking up the klezmer and Yiddish music scene for 30 years now. So...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2016
1973-1980
Born in Guinea-Conakry, singer and percussionist Amara Touré wandered peripatetically across West African music for 20 or so years –...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Tastes Like LA
So diverse is Latin American music that most artists, when they come to fusions, choose a couple of elements and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2017
Sunny Afrika
After his professional musical start in Ghana in the 1970s as a member of the group Basa Basa at Faisal...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2019
Oud Vibrations
Ahmed Abdul Malik & Chick Ganimian
At first glance this punning titled reissue of two rare ‘East meets West’ jazz LPs from the late 1950s may...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
London Stories
Maciek Pysz (from Poland) and Gianluca Corona (from Italy) first played together in 2012, at an East London jam session....
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2017
Ritual
Right in the middle of the rock-jazz-Latin Venn diagram there's a sweet spot reserved for Santana. Many have tried to...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2022
Les Tzitzíkia: Les Cigales
Katerina Fotinaki’s debut CD recapitulates in part a Greek musical experiment from 1995 by Nena Venetsanou called Ikones, in which...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: June/2014
Bless Up
The veteran Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin helped to give birth to reggae, playing on early recordings that defined the genre...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
The São Paulo Tapes
On reading that Robert Wyatt came out of retirement to produce Vasconcelos' eighth album (having previously worked with her on...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: December/2017
