Reviews
Nani
Nani is the debut album from Finnish folk musician and researcher Emmi Kujanpää. An avid enthusiast of Finnish and Bulgarian...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2020
Surya: Chants of Light
Vedic chanting – mantras sung in the original Sanskrit – is one of the most beautiful, stimulating, and transcendental musical...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2014
Togetherings
Afrobeat! It started in the West African tropics and blazed a trail almost as far as the Arctic… well, Finland,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2019
El Bueno y el Malo
Swiss-Ecuadorian guitar duo Hermanos Gutiérrez make their intentions clear from the first twang of heavily-reverbed guitar. Sitting somewhere between Tarantino...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: January/February/2023
The Gambia Sessions
Gambian singer and percussionist Musa Mboob leads a core quartet of UK players augmented by another four guests, who collectively...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2019
More Arriving
Born in the US, raised and educated in India and a London resident for the past decade, the percussionist and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Teranga
Hervé Samb is a self-taught guitarist and composer from Senegal whose way with harmony and technique has won him considerable...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
The Playhouse Sessions
‘How should I behave when I have a violin in my hand?’ asks the dazzling Norwegian violinist Bjarte Eike in...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/February/2023
Hide and Hair
Originally from North Wales and Yorkshire, The Trials of Cato are a trio who got together while they were living...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Cumbias Internacionales
Tita Duval y El Nuevo Ritmo de Bobby Rey
This reissue from Vampisoul is a star-studded album, headed up by the Argentinian couple Roberto Rey and Tita Duval. Duval...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2019
