Reviews
Solas an Lae
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O'Brien
Fiddler Ultan O'Brien and singer Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin have been one of Ireland's best-kept secrets in recent years. Having first...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2021
Arghyam: The Offering
This album is part of the new Utsav! series that celebrates the ‘ life, music and legacy of Ravi Shankar.’...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Jola: Hidden Gnawa Music in Brussels
A label, venue, and performing arts foundation, Muziekpublique's latest release focuses on Brussels’ population of Gnawa musicians, which numbers some...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2020
Coming Home
Ghanaian highlife appears to be regaining its popularity of late, and those who witnessed Pat Thomas at WOMAD in July...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2016
Sodjan
If ngoni virtuoso Makan Badje Tounkara looks like he might be out to cash in on Bassekou Kouyaté's extraordinary success...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: Apr/May/2012
O Método
Since he left Madredeus in 1994, Rodrigo Leão has established himself as a masterful songwriter, working on a sort of...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2020
Neon Colonialismo
It's ten years since musical free radical Batida, aka Pedro Coquenão, exploded into my dance floor set with his Batida...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: December/2022
In Concert
Kartik Seshadri & Anindo Chatterjee
Kartik Seshadri is probably the best sitar player of his generation and is considered a leading exponent of this most...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2010
Nedaye Asemani
The spiritual but contagious excite¬ment that we have come to associate with Iranian classical music is abundantly present on this...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
