Reviews
Aynaabe
The traditional bowed violin of the Senegalese Peul shepherds is called nianiorou or riti. Former shepherd Issa Sow is perhaps...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020
Harmony
In the entrance to the offices of Universal Records in Beijing, there’s a wall c o ve re d i...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2010
Al Qantara
Majid Bekkas is a Moroccan multi-instrumentalist who has previously explored the meeting points between Maghrebi Gnawa music and the blues....
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2014
Missing Chapters
Unique Cameroonian singer-songwritercum-stylist Moken follows up 2016's Chapters of My Life with Missing Chapters. He's in Atlanta, Georgia, having transplanted...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2019
One Love, One Life
Despite being an unremarkable figure during reggae's golden era in the 70s, Beres Hammond has created a contemporary two-disc album...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2013
Fado: Coimbra-Lisbonne 1949-1961
Having Alfredo Marceneiro, Amalia Rodrigues, Lucília do Carmo, Fernando Farinha, Maria Teresa de Noronha and Hermínia Silva on one record...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Robbie Greig & Friends
Edinburgh-based and steeped in the Gaelic tradition, Robbie Grieg has enlisted a fine set of friends for his debut album,...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2017
The Great Irish Songbook
Dervish mark 30 years together with their first studio album in more than a decade and the first to be...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2019
Dance of the Cobra
To anyone familiar with the vibrant sounds of Indian wedding bands, this will come as a welcome album. What they...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Spellbound
It might be an act of contrariness for one of the world’s leading percussionists to devote an album to the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2013
