Reviews
’94 – Now: Collaborations
Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) celebrate 30 years of their radical history this autumn with this collection of the mightiest of...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: December/2024
Naamu
For years, bass player Teun Creemers has played behind illustrious West African artists like Harouna Samake (Salif Keita’s kamelengoni player)...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: June/2023
Havana Classic
One day someone should write a feature on music tourism – me perhaps! By this, I mean groups of Brits...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2019
Turquoise
Mohammed Reza Ebrahimi is a virtuoso of the oud and Persian tar, and an instructor at the Music Conservatory of...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: January/2021
Hurry the Jug
Leonard Barry, Declan Folan & Shane McGowan
Leonard Barry, Declan Folan and Shane McGowan's long comradeship in countless live sessions pays crisp, spryly accented dividends aplenty in...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2020
Behave the Bravest
Can Nuala Kennedy really be celebrating ten years as a solo artist? It is hard to believe, but Behave the...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2016
City Beats
The impact of the revolutions that swept the Arab world since 2010 on its musicians have rarely been chronicled or...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: November/2018
Mista Savona Presents Havana Meets Kingston Part 2
Five years after stars young and old assembled under the aegis of Australian dancehall producer Jake Dominic ‘Mista’ Savona for...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2022
Origine Orients
Abaji says of the hybrid oud–guitar he built and played on his new album Origine Orients that it is his...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2010
11 Dimensions
This is CH Straatmann's second solo album. He's an undeniably talented bass player, who hails from Brazil, with an impressive...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2020
