Reviews
Strange Days
Former Transglobal Underground singer and BBC Radio 3 World Music Award winner Natacha Atlas is well known for combining electro-acoustic...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020
Wings
Knowing nothing about this seven-piece, save that it hailed from Hungary and appeared to have a religious bent, on first...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
New Luk Tung
This album is the latest Thai release from Japan's EM Records and marks a departure from previous reissues of Thai...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Doomsday Survival Kit
Don't be fooled by the short tracklisting on Lebanese duo Praed's fourth album. The four tracks near an hour of...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Kosmopolítēs
How global do you like to take your grooves? Mexican DJ Danochilango and Colombian singer and musician Mambe style themselves...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Afrotropism
Although Danish seven-piece The Kutimangoes originally aimed for the crossroads between Afrobeat and jazz, further musical adventures have edged their...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Songs from the Bardo
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith
Dealing with dying is a major aspect of both the sacred and secular. Songs from the Bardo is a small...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
The Rough Guide to World Jazz
For a long time, the Rough Guide series was indispensable for world music fans. Within one CD, they would take...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Roots to Rise (Live)
Caught live in the hallowed acoustics of Michigan's fabled The Ark in Ann Arbor, this album by Celtgrass pioneers We...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
The Gambia Sessions
Gambian singer and percussionist Musa Mboob leads a core quartet of UK players augmented by another four guests, who collectively...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
