Reviews
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Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express
‘I’m always a little wary of rock bands dabbling in world music,’ admitted Radiohead's guitarist Jonny Greenwood when talking about...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Buenas Noches, Compatriotas…
If Mercedes Sosa is South America’s Pachamama (Earth Mother), Atahualpa Yupanqui is undoubtedly its patriarch. Born in 1908 in Pergamino,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2013
LIVE – Olympiahalle München
LaBrassBanda hail from Bavaria, and this homecoming concert found them playing to 12,000 fans. You read that correctly: not 1,200...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
L'Odyssey
This excellent debut album from Middle Eastern/Caribbean duo Vocal Global qualifies as true world music in every sense. Israeli Noga...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: June/2017
Handmade Life
To illustrate the lyrical and incisive dissection of public ills and private graces that is Handmade Life, the album‘s artwork...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2010
Kvite Fuglar
Kvite Fuglar (White Bird) is accompanied, in the liner notes, by a short statement from Unni Boksasp: ‘I've written all...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2013
Miri
One of the principle instruments of Mali's griot storytelling tradition is the ngoni (lute), and more than anyone else, Bassekou...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2019
Encounters
Encounters is a study in subtlety. Bassist Sigurd Hole, known for his work with the famously restrained jazz pianist Tord...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: November/2018
Coisa Boa
It's been 13 years since Moreno Veloso's last album – his debut, Music Typewriter – heralded a new generation of...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2015
Alsahraa
On her first album, View from Somewhere, the London-based Sudanese-Italian singer Amira Kheir explored the various musical traditions of Sudan....
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2014
