Reviews
Gharnata
Gharnata takes its name from the Arabic for Granada, capital city of flamenco. Singer Luis de la Carrasca has long...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: November/2019
The Road to Damascus
Followers of Nick Page, former frontman of Transglobal Underground and serial musical collaborator, might be surprised by his latest project....
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: October/2010
Movimento
You could say that Aline Frazão is the Mayra Andrade of Angola – a singer who has made a concerted...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2015
Together We are Strong: The Song Peoples Sessions
Shellie Morris & The Borroloola Songwomen
An important voice in Australian indigenous music, singer-songwriter Shellie Morris’s soloCareer has been complemented by stints with the all-star Black...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2013
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
