Reviews
Muraqaba
Fanna-fi-Allah, meaning ‘To Annihilate the Self,’ is the name of a Canadian-American group specialising in qawwali, the devotional music of...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: December/2018
The Turbans
This is an album that surprises, impresses and leaves you feeling slightly giddy – like a kosh over the head,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2018
Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra
Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra
In 2014 Tony Allen visited Haiti to perform with local musicians at a concert in Port-Au-Prince's main square. He was...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Interloper
It's intriguing to hear what Kitching, a BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award finalist and member of Pilgrim's Way, is...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2015
Hatched
While she is not widely known in the UK, Badi Assad is one of the most popular Brazilian artists in...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Forest Bathing
The partnership of violinist Heather Trost and accordion and percussionist Jeremy Barnes has moved from indie-leaning beginnings through to fully...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: June/2018
Twinklings of Hope
I first heard Iranian sisters Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat in Istanbul in 2006. The power in their voices, so perfectly...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
A Touma
Little more than six months ago, Ballaké Sissoko released Djourou, a kora album of glorious hybridity, rooted in ancient griot...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2021
A Lindisfarne Gospel
In the early eighth century on Holy Island in Northumberland, a man named Eadfrith, working alone, created a glorious masterpiece,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2014
