Reviews
Sufi Spirit
You may be forgiven for approaching this with trepidation: a Danish rock‘n’roll band playing along with qawwali (the sacred music...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: August/2017
Touristes
Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin
The Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and the 25-year-old American singer Julia Easterlin met in New York in 2014 when...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2015
Sweden Norway: Norrspel
Ocora's long history of field recordings has played an important role in the documentation of musical traditions from around the...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2015
Balka Sound
A rare vinyl copy of Balka Sound’s 1984 album Afro Musik Creation is currently on offer at $275 on the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023
Burma: Classical Theatre Music
With so few CDs of Burmese traditional music actually available in the West, this is an important and exciting release....
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: March/2011
Udondolo
It is unsurprising that black South African music in recent years has lacked the game-changing potency it enjoyed when soundtracking...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2021
A Handful of Sky
This is a pair of musicians steeped in the folk music and traditions of the south-west – Becki Driscoll comes...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2014
Jaku Mumor (Ancestral Spirit)
Born into a family of musicians and storytellers on Ghana's Atlantic coast, Okaidja Afroso learned to sing seafaring songs as...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2022
