Reviews
365, Vol 1
Recent years have seen several traditional musicians giving themselves new year's resolutions to record a folk song a day, or...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: June/2018
Beyond Addis Vol 2
The legacy of Mulatu Astatké rolls on splendidly on this second volume of contemporary interpretations of his Ethio-jazz style. Astatké...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2016
The Queen of Turquoise
Born in Aleppo and a graduate of the Damascus Conservatory, saxophonist and composer Rajoub – who now lives in exile...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016
Rock the Tabla
It's the Egyptian tabla that's the one presented here: the single-skinned goblet drum, aka darbuka, dumbek, among its many names....
Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Cosmologies
The village of Rääkkylä in Finnish Karelia has an important place in Finland's musical history as the birthplace, nearly 40...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2021
Empêche-Nous!
France's favourite southerners are back with more balladry about life in the port city of La Ciotat, near Marseille. This...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2012
Dakar Suite
Back in 2006, the German-born singer and jazz guitarist Leni Stern found herself performing at Mali's Festival in the Desert....
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2016
Marcos Valle JID003
Marcos Valle, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad
More than half a century after recording the seminal Samba ’68 album for Verve, Marcos Valle’s love affair with black...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2020
Soweto
Robson Banda and the New Black Eagles
Robson Banda started his career as a member of Thomas Mapfumo’s first group Acid Band. In Zimbabwe the chimurenga music...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: January/February/2022
