Reviews

Phantom Songs

17 Hippies

Ten albums and over 1,500 gigs later, the Berliners are still all over the map. When the Iron Curtain was...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011

Yidishe Lider

Arkady Gendler

Yidishe Lider is the fruit of an extraordinary project to honour the life and work of Arkady Gendler, who was...

Reviewed by Helen Beer in issue: June/2013

Mother

Xylouris White

George Xylouris and Jim White are a mesmerising double act, what with the Cretan laouto player and singer's nimble string...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2018

Raghu Dixit

Raghu Dixit

Do you wanna feel good? Raghu Dixit does. He has an exuberant optimism that epitomises modern India. While announcing in...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2010

Destiny

Abdelli

Born in Algeria during the independence war, Abderrahmane Abdelli first came to wider attention with his 1995 Real World album...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2012

Up From The Deep

Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts

Nominated for a BBC Horizon Award for best new act in 2010, and both graduates of the Leeds College of...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Spell 31

Ibeyi

Spell 31 is the third full-length from the French-Cuban sister duo, Ibeyi, and it is perhaps their most daring record...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: March/2023

The Strings of São Domingos

Ano Nobo Quartet

Gently swaying rhythms as effortless as lapping waves, melodies infused with the sweet melancholic longing of saudades: the music of...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: May/2022

Balkan Reggae

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Mahala Rai Banda – the youthful Bucharest Gypsy band who mix brass and strings – are no newcomers to being...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia

Tim Maia

One of the oddities of Brazilian music is the lack of strong, assertive male vocals: the kind of voices that...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2012