Reviews
Blue White Gold
It has already been a decade since Danes Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (fiddle), Nikolaj Busk (piano and accordion) and Swede Ale...
Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Ketan
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a highlife singer and multi-instrumentalist from the coastal city of Sekondi-Takoradi in the western region of Ghana....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2017
Salsa Vintage
Based in the Netherlands since 1992, Venezuelan percussionist Gerardo Rosales has played with such big-hitters as Oscar D’León, Jimmy Bosch,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2017
Life as Is
Themes of uncertainty and impermanence run deep throughout this album, itself a product of an unlikely chance encounter between Syrian...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Lift
Koki Nakano with Vincent Segal
Anything that involves the French cellist and world music adventurer Vincent Segal is always worth hearing. Here, he teams up...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2017
Revolutionary Birds
Wassim Halal, Erwan Keravec, Mounir Troudi
Revolutionary Birds is a striking new collaboration between Tunisian jazz and Sufi singer Mounir Troudi, Breton bagpiper Erwan Keravec, and...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Soô
Perhaps it was recording 2012’s Brothers in Bamako with the American bluesman Eric Bibb that persuaded Habib Koité it was...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2014
Heritage
Born in London to a Nigerian father and an Irish mother, Jegede has a rich musical history. As a child...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2014
Rescued Treasure
This is rescued treasure indeed. The Semer Ensemble bring back to life the previously lost recordings of Hirsch Lewin's Semer...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2016
