Reviews
Le Chant Khyal ou l'Art de l'Imagination
Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande is currently one of the leading female artists of North Indian classical vocal music specialising in the genre...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: April/2021
La Voz de la Zafra
Because Mercedes Sosa (1935-2009) achieved international recognition in her later years, she is popularly imagined as an ageless earth-mother with...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2013
Dionysus vs Tamada
Georgian artist Lasha Chapel has already enjoyed some underground success performing smoky, Anglophone ballads backed by minimal electronic beats. After...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: January/February/2022
Party Beats
This is another re-release from the Tabansi vault of 80s African music. The late Nkono Teles, who is perhaps better...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: November/2019
Live At The Quecumbar
Benoit Viellefon is a 30-something French guitarist and singer who resides in the UK. Viellefon is a dapper dresser –...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Gala de la Chanson Francarabe
This wonderfully savoury compilation comes from a field still relatively little known in world music circles, in spite of the...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2014
Secrets of Navigation
The Los Angelesbased violinist Chris Murphy has self-released a prolific raft of albums under his own name on his Teahouse...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2020
High Words
My first inclination was to award this album a single star. These songs are annoyingly catchy, and they're annoyingly unfunny,...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2017
