Reviews
Kinshasa 1978: Originals and Reconstructions
This is a welcome reimagining of a remarkable recording that captured the early days of the Congotronics groups. Recorded in...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020
Eternal Light
Lalgudi GJR Krishnan & Anil Srinivasan
Lalgudi Krishnan is the son of the famous violin legend Lalgudi Jayaraman, and for this recording he has teamed up...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Apr/May/2011
Audio Descriptive
Shammi Pithia says he owes a debt to fellow British Asian musician Nitin Sawhney. On the evidence of his 16-track...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Wayward Daughter
‘Grey Gallito’ is a work of steamy jazz that sounds as if it was recorded in Havana. It is also...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2013
Ondatropica
No one does Colombia with as much attention to detail as Soundway Records. Their latest two-CD release, Ondatrópica, is a...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Song Up In Her Head
It’s extremely hard to get past the fact that this multi– instrumentalist bluegrass super-talent from Texas is only 19 years...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
The Wolf of Baghdad Memoir of a Lost Homeland
The Wolf of Baghdad is an ambitious and beautifully executed motion-comic that tells the story of Carol Isaacs’ Iraqi-Jewish family...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: May/2020
Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal
This is the debut recording of one of Finland's most dynamic new groups. The four young women who comprise Tuuletar...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2017
Rua da Emenda
Up to this point, António Zambujo had been gradually climbing a ladder that meant both more international recognition, establishing a...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Apr/May/2015
Ruhabi
Forming musical communities is all the rage for young jazz artists on the London scene. The emerging double-sax quartet Outhouse...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2010
