Reviews
As It Comes
Belgian composer and multi-instrumentalist Ward Dhoore has made fairly regular appearances in these pages as a member of such forward-thinking...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2025
The King of History
Daniel Misiani came to the attention of non-Kenyans in the late 80s with two albums released in the UK that...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: October/2010
Blackletter Garland
The Hack-Poets Guild are Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and composer and sound designer Nathaniel Mann. Working with Sound UK Arts,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2023
Doctor Bird
Now in his mid 70s, the Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian the Mighty Sparrow, still performs, drawing attention to social justice...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: October/2011
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Aşk(Love)
Aka Gündüz Kutbay | Kani Karaca
Don Cherry and Rafael Garrett brought exciting news about this astounding ney soloist, steeped in the mevlevi tradition but fearless...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: July/2010
Blues from Elsewhere
Koby Israelite isn’t a man to be put in a box. Indeed, the Israeli-born, south London multi¬instrumentalist is a world...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2013
Connections
When they collaborated on the Bombay Dreams musical a few years ago, Andrew Lloyd Webber declared Rahman to be ‘the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Synchro System & Aura
King Sunny Adé & his African Beats
This is a very welcome reissue of the Nigerian juju maestro's second and third albums for Island Records. Sunny Adé's...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Cumbia Beat Vol 1
Peru had a sizzling, cosmopolitan music scene in the 1960s and 70s, when shifting nationalist politics, coupled with huge rural...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: October/2010
Wayward Daughter
‘Grey Gallito’ is a work of steamy jazz that sounds as if it was recorded in Havana. It is also...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2013
