Reviews
Orient Noir: A West-Eastern Divan
In the saturated compilation market these days it’s all about packaging and presentation. The ‘noir’ concept by the German label...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Cantendi a Deus
In her extensive research about her native island music, the Sardinian singer Elena Ledda has regularly delved into the traditional...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Northern Light, Gambian Night
The Gambian kora player Amadou Bansang Jobarteh awoke many Western listeners to African music two decades ago, and now Dawda,...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: October/2011
From There to Here
It’s high time Omar Puente received his due. The Yorkshire–based Cuban violin virtuoso and jazzer has been just outside the...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Hongo Calling
Billed as the new soul voice of Cameroon, Blick Bassy is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and percussionist whose Bassa-language solo debut...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011
The Stone Turntable
Transglobal Underground were there at the start, shaking up the London club scene with their beats-driven fusion and proudly hippy...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2011
Hikoi/Journey
Richard Nunns, Paul Dyne & Dave Lisik
If 68-year-old Kiwi ethnomusicologist Richard Nunns isn’t careful, he’ll end up appearing on every album made in New Zealand! The...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2013
Rişar & Kupa 4
These songs stem from a perilous time in Turkish history when ethnic strife between Turks, Greeks and Armenians was beginning...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: April/2022
The Voice of Lightness Vol 2: Congo Classics 1977-1993
The second two-disc volume of the definitive career overview of Tabu Ley Rochereau picks up the Congo’s greatest vocalist at...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2011
Vel
The fifth album from the British-Asian singer and 2001 Mercury Music prize nominee finds her digging deeper than ever before...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
