Reviews
Kachupada
With Verdade, her 2010 release, Carmen Souza introduced herself to the world as a kind of Cape Verdean Diana Krall....
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2013
Anewal – The Walking Man
It’s unclear whether guitarist and vocalist Alhousseini Mohamed Anivolla has left Etran Finatawa for a solo career or if this...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2012
Live at Lagny Jazz Festival
There aren’t many Cape Verdean diaspora artists with the audacity to segue between Cesaria Evora's ‘Sodade’ and the Sound of...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2014
Metamorfoses, Riddims e Afins
BNegão is known for his vocal work primarily with stoned rap-rockers Planet Hemp and his own band Seletores de Frequência....
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: April/2025
Czech Republic: Music from Walachia, Horňácko and Kopanice
Compared to neighbouring Hungary, whose traditional music has an international profile, the folk music of the Czech Republic is little...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2012
Alistair Anderson & Northlands
Alistair Anderson & Northlands
Alistair Anderson, venerable master of the concertina and Northumbrian smallpipes, has been playing the music of the north-east of England...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2017
Hayvan Gibi
The intimacy of hearing – and seeing – Baba Zula Live has Lately surpassed the experience of Listening to some...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2020
Sacred World of Azerbaijani Mugham
Gochag Askarov, in his mid-30s, is the new icon of mugham, the intense classical music of Azerbaijan. He was the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2014
