Reviews
Essentially Invisible to the Eye
I can't remember ever seeing Karen Tweed's [pictured right] name alone. It has always been Karen Tweed and Ian Carr...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2012
Âmago
Since 2013, André Coelho Rodrigues has been exploring and perfecting his peculiar take on Portuguese folk music after going through...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2023
Music from Entre Douro e Vouga
In contrast to the extraordinary field recordings by Michel Giacometti and José Alberto Sardinha all over Portugal during the second...
Reviewed by Gongalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Punk Islands
For Indian Ocean music aficionados, M’Toro Chamou of Mayotte is no new kid on the block. Since 1998, we have...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: June/2016
Milton Nascimento: Original Album Series
Sensing the way the rapt audience on the live album Amigo (1996) hangs on the singer’s every utterance underlines just...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2013
Taranta Container
Led by Lecce-born singer and author Alessandro Coppola, Nidi d'Arac have mingled traditional repertoires from Salento in south-east Italy with...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2011
Ya Balad
Bachar Mar-Khalifé comes from one of Lebanon's most eminent musical families: his father is the internationally renowned singer Marcel Khalifé;...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: December/2015
Trumpet King Zeal Onyia Returns
When Louis Armstrong toured West Africa in 1961, he dubbed Onyia ‘the highlife hep cat of Nigerian jazz trumpet.’ One...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2019
Dhaalu Raa
The Maldives would be hard put to find a better soundtrack for its 50th-anniversary independence celebrations next year than this....
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: October/2014
