King Jammy, Jamaican DJ and producer, began his career under the tutelage of dub legend King Tubby before setting up...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
This reviewer must admit to being a big fan of sanjo, the extended, almost jazzy Korean instrumental genre. It typically...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: July/2013
Sometimes an album title immediately makes you want to return it, unheard. Such is the case with the nonsensically titled...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Not to be confused with World Music Network’s original Rough Guide to Cumbia, this is a completely new compilation of...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2013
These wonderful discs make up two volumes of field recordings made in the Thar desert in Rajasthan, with both albums...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
A surprising collection of field recordings and re-arrangements of traditional pieces, Sounds of the East follows on from Beronja's Sounds...
Reviewed by Amar Dhillon in issue: June/2017
Sushma Soma with Aditya Prakash
Forest fires create an ashen, black landscape in the Amazon. Over in India, an elephant stumbles across a pineapple, begins...
Reviewed by James Scott Roriston in issue: July/2022
The Welsh six-piece Mabon may not be well known on the English side of the border. It’s as if there’s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
As hard to categorise as it is to stop listening to, Boring & Weird Historical Music is a genre-defying aural...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2020
The Taal Tantra Experience with Tanmoy Bose
This is Taal Tantra’s second album, in which Indian and German musicians combine raga and jazz, fusing European and Indian...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Start your journey and discover the very best music from around the world.
Subscribe