Reviews
Shoshan
Ready for something new and exciting? How about qawwali (Sufi devotional song), Rajasthani folk singing, Indian classical music, flamenco and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2010
Di Corsica Riposu; Requiem pour Deux Regards
Corsica In Repose; A Requiem of Two Visions is the album's title; looking both ways is the essence of what...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Panic Grass & Fever Few
Ian King of England – it has an old–money ring to it – is a Barnsley–born singer and stonewaller. The...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2010
MTMTMK
The combination of the Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and the London-based electro production team Radioclit made The Very Best's debut...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Studio 105
Mayra Andrade has released just two albums:her spellbinding and multi award-winning 2006 debut Navega and its lusher 2010 follow-up Stória...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Sonocardiogram
Fronting big bands by 14, Cuban singer Daymé Arocena is now 27 and releasing her fourth album for Brownswood Recordings,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2019
Gilles Peterson Presents: Havana Cultura – New Cuba Sound
Clubbers and Cubanophiles alike will leap on this double set from the zeitgeist-riding Gilles Peterson. Financed by Havana Rum and...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
L’Oeil Du Coeur
This is not your everyday easy listening album. For those without a strong grasp of Arabic and/or French, either a...
Reviewed by Gus Isherwood in issue: October/2013
