Reviews
There Must Be Another Way
Packing a punch with their post-pandemic offering, Manchester-based Agbeko’s There Must Be Another Way is a musical declaration of their...
Reviewed by Hillary Palesa Morusi in issue: January/February/2024
Sharatin
Ensemble Marani are an award-winning group of vocalists singing Georgian polyphony who have been active for over 30 years. They...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2025
Armageddon in a Sunny Dress
According to Sunny War, the music on Armageddon in a Sunny Dress, her follow-up to 2023’s Anarchist Gospel, partly stems...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2025
Mara la Fatìa
Translating as ‘working is hard and bitter,’ Mara la Fatìa is this outstanding Salento musician’s second solo CD. Castrignanò debuted...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
SUBHA
Sitar player Roopa Panesar is certainly one of the most important musicians to have emerged in the British Asian diaspora...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2022
Rumba Africa
Emerging from the Congo, and flourishing even during that painful era when the country was renamed Zaire, African rumba became...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: February/March/2026
The Rough Guide to Latin Disco
This is hardly the first compilation to highlight the Latino love affair with disco, but it's a hugely enjoyable romp...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: December/2015
7 Billion
It's good, for her health's sake, that New York-based ghazal singer Kiran Ahluwalia isn’t one of those artists, like Led...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2018
Sovereign
Beginning with ‘Halfway Around the World’, this gathering of sidemen to the stars (British art-rocker Brian Auger, Elvis Costello drummer...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2021
