Reviews
Remezcla/Pe
Remezcla is ‘remix’ in Spanish; Pe is the URL country code of Peru. Each of the 15 songs on this...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2021
Songs For Workers
Tian Qiyi featuring Jah Wobble
Ridiculously talented brothers John and Charlie Wardle return to further enhance the meeting point between Chinese and Western music. Charlie...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: October/2025
Fangnawa Experience
Fanga & Maalem Abdallah Guinea
In an era where collaboration is the key to some of the most exciting musical styles around, some fusions remain...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Meridiana
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
‘Meridiana is about our relationship with time, its perception. As southerners we are defined by our connection with the sun,...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2021
Pete Seeger in England
For most of the 1950s, Pete Seeger was unable to travel outside the US due to the persecution of senator...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2016
The Forest In Me
Hard-working Cretan-Australian duo Xylouris White continue to further their culty freeform lute-and-drums oeuvre with The Forest in Me, their fifth...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2023
East North
There has always been an eclectic tinge, and a flair for the complex and wildly virtuosic in Russian jazz. This...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Real World 25
Real World began life in 1989 with Passion, the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's movie The Last Temptation of Christ, scored...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Opa Hey!
On first glance, young producer Kottarashky could be seen as some slow-off-the-mark Johnny-come-lately. The Balkans are, after all, a territory...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: March/2010
The Importance of Being Espetacular
Thiago França Presents A Espetacular Charanga Do França
The avant-garde saxophonist, samba revivalist and Metá Metá co-founder Thiago França has been running the Carnaval charanga band A Espetacular...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: November/2021
