Reviews
Topspin
Cardboard Fox's music is striking for its lightness – a lightness of touch, that is, not of content. In this...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2018
Rooftop Sessions
The piano keys fall like drops of water, the violin soars like a gull over 0resund, while the delicate pluck...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
La Banda Municipal de Santiago de Cuba
La Banda Municipal de Santiago de Cuba
One of the island's wonderful historic musical institutions, the 114-year-old municipal brass band of Santiago continues to soldier on, notwithstanding...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: March/2013
Supertraditionellt Material
This album is a breaking open of the treasure chest of the Caprice Records archive, curated by Swedish folk musicians...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2020
Horn OK Please: Roadto Bollywood
Bollywood is so closely linked to the song and dance culture of South Asia that it almost ends up engulfing...
Reviewed by Rafay Mahmood in issue: June/2018
Stockholm-Dakar
To get the back¬story out of the way first: Sousou and Maher Cissoko grew up on two different continents –...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2012
Miri
One of the principle instruments of Mali's griot storytelling tradition is the ngoni (lute), and more than anyone else, Bassekou...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2019
Janna Aana
There have been enough qawwali- electronica fusions they could almost be their own sub-genre. The point of encounter seems to...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: November/2020
Pasichigare: Mystic Mbira Music of Zimbabwe
Chartwell Dutiro is the artistic director of the Mhararano Mbira Academy in Devon, England. He is one of the leading...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2014
The Original Sound of Mali
The dance band craze of the 1970s saw groups from all over West Africa putting their own spin on Latin...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2017
