Reviews

A Mis Hermanos

Diego Clavel

Since winning his first singing prize back in 1970, Diego Clavel has steadily gained an admiring audience both inside Spain's...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2015

Vaiteani

Vaiteani

With far too little South Pacific Polynesian music making its way across the big waters these days, this is a...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2018

Laysongs

Chris Thile

Nowhere has master mandolinist Thile’s formidable artistry been more fully realized than on Laysongs. Urged on by Nonesuch Records honcho...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2021

Amrat

Rasha Nahas

There is something about discovering one's native tongue after a brief fling abroad with a foreign language. Whether out of...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: March/2023

African Woman

Sia Tolno

Sia Tolno was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Life for her was no bed of roses: her father was a...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Joudour

Majid Bekkas

Bekkas has been a Gnawa fusion artist for more than three decades, founding his Gnaoua Blues Band back in 1990,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2022

Volume 3

QWANQWA

If you’ve been paying attention to modern Ethiopian trad music over the past five-odd years, you will have come across...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2020

Gypsy Lover

Faith i Branko

English accordionist and circus performer Faith Elliott loved Balkan music so much that several years ago she landed in Serbia,...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2016

Jar’a

Paolo Angeli

A sound explorer and artistic orchestrator, Paolo Angeli is known for playing a prepared Sardinian guitar, a crossbreed instrument provided...

Reviewed by Cira De Rosa in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

Longyin: The Dragon Chants

Cheng Yu with Dennis Kwong Thye Lee

In classical music, the recreation of earlier musical styles has become a genre in itself with what’s now called HIP...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/February/2022