Reviews
Punky Halal
It's been 14 years since French Maghreb-influenced band Les Boukakes first started rocking not just the casbahs but the world...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2013
Maguidala
After the success of their compilation Léve Léve: Sao Tomé & Príncipe Sounds 70s-80s earlier in the year, Bongo Joe...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2020
Canaich
As is traditional for a Scottish Highland male, fiddler Duncan Chisholm isn’t one to get too demonstrative in the material...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: October/2010
Weird and Wonderful Tales
French multi-instrumentalists Maria Laurent and Gautier Degandt specialise in hard-core acoustic folk, given a rock attitude, although still operating within...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2019
The Rough Guide to Brazilian Jazz
It's fair to say Brazilian music has been in intimate dialogue with jazz almost from the genre's 19th-century inception –...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Dark Wings of the Night
There's something dark and secretive about Finnish tango; that is its great attraction. Listen to archive recordings from the 40s...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
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Kathryn Locke with Chodompa Music
The self-styled ‘wayward cellist’ returns from seven years of silence with a musical collective that draws on Indian and Tibetan...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Thrace: The Paths of Dionysus
The Rodopi Ensemble, comprising violin, clarinet, kanun, assorted percussion and lute plus vocals, was formed during the 1990s in this...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: April/2019
Cinema
Cinema is fusionist Kale's fifth and most ambitious album and was recorded in New Delhi, New York, Mumbai, and Ibiza...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2011
The Scorpios
The Scorpios are a ten-piece band with most members originating from Khartoum in Sudan, and are now based in London...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2017
