Reviews
Great British Gharana
The idea of a ‘great British gharana’ – a tradition or school of music – was thought up in 2011...
Reviewed by Amar Dhillon in issue: June/2017
Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China
This highly personal collection of music is the distillation of 55 CDs’ worth of source material lovingly recorded between 2006...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Sunshine Day: The Boyhood Sessions
Richard Linklater spent 12 years making the 2014 movie Boyhood, a remarkable and sprawling investigation of the human condition refracted...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2020
Viva Diaspora
With over two decades of being lauded for his electronic take on Gypsy brass and klezmer stylings, Frankfurt's Shantel hit...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2015
Unbounded (Abaad)
Inspired by Hindustani classical lineage and by John McLaughlin's fusions with Shakti alike, the 45-year old Indian sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2021
Polka for Punks
Thirty-five years on, the anarchic spirit of punk keeps emerging in unlikely places, from the Beijing underground to R.U.T.A, the...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: March/2013
Gypsy Killer
This strangely named disc draws on the repertoire of the great Romanian singer Maria Tanase (1913-1963), who is held in...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2011
Kharifa
Recorded in Bamako with his six-piece band Bamada and some of the finest names in Malian music among the guests,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2019
Clandestino
Starting with true Cuban son flavours on ‘A Mí Me Gusta Compay’ before settling into the nueva trova sounds that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Apr/May/2012
