Reviews
Wild Wild East
Born in New York in 1975 to Punjabi immigrants, Jain has become a leading figure in North America's burgeoning Asian...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Is That So?
John McLaughlin, Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain
John McLaughlin sparked a paradigm shift in the East-West fusion genre with his 1970s group Shakti. He is seeking another...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Magic Spirit Quartet
As one of the leaders of the Gnawa revival and its incursions into fusion, Majid Bekkas has stressed the importance...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
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Yewoulen (Wake Up)
Bringing together members of the Senegalese-born singer Biram Seck's Jant Band and French guitarist Thibaut Remy's London-based African-European collective Awale,...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
The Ripple Effect
A dozen years ago, the American banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck took a journey across Africa to research the origins of...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Siberia Extreme
Chyskyyrai, Tim Hodgkinson & Ken Hyder
A unique offering of what at first sounds like it could be experimental field recordings from the northernmost republic of...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
One Day Band Vol 1
What can you achieve in one day? This is the question posed by Trestle Records in East London with their...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Fu Chronicles
This isn't your average Afrobeat album; this one explores not only messages of black power and equality, but also the...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Curiche
In the past ten years Afrobeat has spread across Latin America, new disciples discovering the genre through the internet and...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Crossing Roots
Ralf Siedhoff & Manuel Delgado meet the Karnataka College of Percussion
Nineteen years ago, Spanish flamenco guitarist Manuel Delgado and German guitarist Ralf Siedhoff teamed up with South Indian Karnatic musicians...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
