Reviews
Creole Sounds from the Indian Ocean
The volcanic archipelago of the Mascarenes in the Indian Ocean to the east of Madagascar includes La Réunion, Mauritius and...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2021
Ashk'farad
Listening to these 65 minutes worth of takeaway klezmer interspersed with the odd Ladino number, the words solid, diligent and...
Reviewed by Dennis Marks in issue: June/2011
Brasil Novo
Brasil Novo is an energetic, uplifting and wonderfully-eclectic compilation that celebrates Afro Brazilian music. Via eight contemporary tracks, the record...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: July/2022
Unite
Some folks follow in the footsteps of Fela, others follow Femi… This ten-piece Afrobeat band from Spain seem to opt...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2022
Expressions: Live in Toulouse
What lies ahead for Natacha Atlas? It’s been 20 years since she played good fairy at the christening of world...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2013
Akoustikòs
Blending their southern Italian roots with influences and instruments from Arabia, North Africa and the Touareg people of the Sahara,...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: December/2018
Monologues
With Monologues, the Indian-born and Toronto-based duo of singer-composer Vandana Vishwas and her husband, the songwriter and musician Vishwas Thoke,...
Reviewed by Rolf Killius in issue: June/2013
Play Traditional Cajun Music
The Balfa Brothers were born into a very poor Cajun farming family in southern Louisiana and grew up both speaking...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2012
Bone Reader
Washington DC isn't an obvious place to look for Afrobeat. Yet in the land of suits and carpeted corridors, Chopteeth...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Sublime Ragas
A foremost protégé of sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, Kartik Seshadri has very rapidly emerged as one of the world's best...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2012
