Reviews
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Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto
Given that for centuries in griot culture it was considered a solo instrument, the kora has in recent decades proved...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022
Pata de Perra
Laso, a key figure in contemporary Argentine tango, teams up with producer Aldo ‘Macha’ Asenjo of Chilean cumbia outfit Chico...
Reviewed by Charis McGowan in issue: January/February/2024
Sargal
Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko & Volker Goetze
In 2023, the New York-based trumpeter/producer Volker Goetze and Senegalese kora master Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko teamed up with flamenco...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: September/2025
Flame Folclòre
Cocanha have done it again. Following their recent team-up with Los Sara Fontán and Tarta Relena on 4132314, the Occitan...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2026
Up She Flew
In the near-decade since her solo debut, 2009's The Open Road, New York-born, Galway-based flautist Steph Geremia has immersed herself...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: December/2018
Sul Filo
Iva Bittová has been pushing the boundaries of East European music for almost 30 years, her voice and violin (and...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2020
Samba Esquema Novo ‘de Novo’
She's her mother's daughter, all right. Her voice may not yet be the national treasure that Joyce Moreno's has become,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2016
So Calypso!
After the triumph of 2016's Far From Home, which went platinum in France and won her the Artist of the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2018
Syrian Dreams
‘This album is my personal journey through the six years of war in Syria,' Youssef writes of her debut album....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
