Reviews
Indian Ragas & Medieval Song
Dominique Vellard, Ken Zuckerman, Anindo Chatterjee & Keyvan Chemirani
The tenor Dominique Vellard is an outstanding figure in the performance of early and Renaissance music, while Ken Zuckerman is...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Apr/May/2012
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
Remezcla/Pe
Remezcla is ‘remix’ in Spanish; Pe is the URL country code of Peru. Each of the 15 songs on this...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2021
Samarpan
Introduced to Indian classical music by Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and the gloriously experimental Debashish Bhattachrya, the...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022
Mulatu Steps Ahead
An influential star of the golden age of Ethiopian popular music, Mulatu Astatke was also the first African student at...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2010
Fatteliku: Live in Athens
Youssou N’Dour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar
In 1987, when it looked as though global sounds, African music in particular, would take a major share of the...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: November/2015
Lady On The Green
Rafe Stefanini was born in Italy and, like the Italian film director Sergio Leone, fell in love with the US...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2012
The Myth of the Golden Ratio
This London-based quartet is made up of the three brothers Yussef, Ahmad and Kareem Dayes (who play, respectively, drums, trombone...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2016
Nordic Notes #100: Great Tunes from Scandinavia
Nordic Notes is a German record label with a passion for the music of northern Europe and Finland in particular....
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2018
