Reviews
Tocororo
This young Cuban jazz pianist's third album starts with a radical reinvention of the old Compay Segundo favourite, ‘Chan Chan’:...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2016
Solo & Indrė
Cross-cultural kora and string collaborations have been rather in vogue for the last couple of years, and for good reason:...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Altur Mur
You know that bit in From Dusk till Dawn when the film goes from kidnap story to vampire flick with...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2022
Funeral Songs
There's a bitter aftertaste to this album. The latest in Glitterbeat's acclaimed Hidden Musics series, it should be an absorbing...
Reviewed by Timothy Clarke-Romain in issue: June/2020
Native American Flute
Native American flute music has enjoyed a vast popularity ever since R Carlos Nakai first began recording in the 1980s...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2016
Cuba: Music and Revolution – Culture Clash in Havana Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85, Vol 2
Soul Jazz continue their excavation of Cuba’s Areito records with a second volume picking up where the first left off....
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2022
Now We are Four
Now that no one's taking live music for granted, it makes the release of a new live album from Devon...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2021
O Ku Ngwo Di Ochi
Oriental Brothers International Band
Fifty years ago the Oriental Brothers were a kind of Nigerian boy band. Hailing from the Igbo-dominated eastern region of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022
On Love and Science
Zulya and the Children of the Underground
Zulya Kamalova, an Australian singer and exponent of Tatar and Russian music, and her band of maestros have teamed up...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2017
Unknown Nearness
Misagh Joolaee is an Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle) player based in Berlin. His solo album Ferne (2019) was surely the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2021
