Reviews
Indo-Arabic Variations
As this 1980 album has been increasing in value over the years (original copies appear to go for around £50...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2022
Tantas Lisboas
Marco Rodrigues’ fado is a little bit different from everyone else’s these days. With a past in pop music, the...
Reviewed by Gongalo Frota in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Shona Ritual Music
The mbira or lamellophone has one of the world's most hypnotic and transcendental sounds. Often called the thumb piano, a...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Music of Central Asia Vol Nine: In the Footsteps of Babur
This ninth CD in the impressive Aga Khan Trust for Culture series of music from Central Asia takes Babur, the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2010
Canibalismo
Peruvian cumbia (or chicha) is the rock‘n’roll of Latin music. More about feeling and attitude than other regional styles, it...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Luangwa to Livingstone: Music from Zambia – Chikunda, Nsenga, Soli, Cewa, Tonga, Ila, Leya
This is a lavish four-CD set of fi eld recordings made by Michael Baird between 1996 and 2016. Baird has...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020
Path of Seven Colors
Listening to this groundbreaking album on the day the news reveals that Haiti’s president has been assassinated by a group...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2021
The Best of Bonga
Listening to this outstanding compilation makes me wonder why ageing singer Bonga isn't more celebrated in English–speaking world music circles....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
