Reviews
Human
You can never take away from Clegg his brave role as a white Jewish musician in apartheid South Africa, fronting...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2011
Tiny Notes
If there's healing in song, then The Young’uns are performing some kind of mental health service for their nation. The...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2023
Echoes of Indus
While Pakistan has undoubtedly given the world some outstanding classical vocalists, Pakistani instrumentalists have, by and large, remained in obscurity...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2013
Desde el Infierno
Héctor Guerra sprung to prominence as a member of Pachamama Crew, a hip-hop group from Madrid who railed against the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2018
Ngiya Awungarra – I Am Here, Now
The indigenous culture of the two main Tiwi Islands – Melville and Bathurst, some 80km north of Darwin – has...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: May/2017
Quilombo
Osvaldo Hernandéz-Napoles is a Mexican singer-songwriter and percussionist who has been based in Brussels for the last 24 years. Quilombo...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2014
Men Lŏnu
Duo Landry+ formed in 2016 after an encounter at the Institut Français de Cotonou. Together, clarinettist, flautist and saxophonist Landry...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: July/2024
Amall
Six years in the making, Amall marks the debut of the Rabbath Electric Orchestra, a transgenerational collaboration between the legendary...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: September/2025
8 Sonneurs pour Philip Glass
Breton sonneur Keravec has long taken the bagpipes into new territories; no mean feat for an instrument so ancient. Early...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: November/2024
