Reviews
Balkan Projekt
Cimbaliband are one of Hungary's great party bands. As their name suggests, the hammered cimbalom, as played by Balázs Unger,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2018
Pod Obločkom
Ondrej Druga is a Slovakian accordionist and he and his ‘friends’ are devotees of the richest area of folk music...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2023
Roi De L’Agbadja Moderne 1974–1983
Best known as the lead singer of salsa legends Africando between 1996 and his death in 2004, Gnonnas Pedro was...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2025
Maisha Ya Mtaani
Mchiriku is a style from the streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, based on circular riffs and chords played on...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2025
Adventures in the Now
This is the fourth instalment of genre crossing ethno-jazz fusion from Finnish multi-instrumentalist Ilkka Arola and his band Sound Tagine....
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: June/2025
Sancocho Trifásico
As their hilarious name suggests, Empanadas Ilegales cross South American borders with impunity. Musically that is. The Vancouver-based, multi-heritage band...
Reviewed by Justin Turford in issue: August/2025
Godless Ceremony
Islandman supplies slick multi-layered atmospheric down-tempo electronica with an ethno touch. Featuring musicians from all over the globe, the title...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2021
Ethiopia Super Krar
The stripped-down acoustic approach taken here seems primed to deliver a raw yet updated, blast of Ethiopian blues, focusing as...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: October/2012
You Me Bullets Love
Take a bunch of session players, add two Indian Australian singers, then order several helpings of theatrical, high-energy Bollywood pastiche:...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2013
