Reviews
Shalom Salam
Senegalese reggae singer Niominka Bi, whose name means ‘the fisherman’ in the Wolof language, has been around on the French...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2010
Pomegranates
Given the current political climate in Iran it is hard to imagine that a vibrant pop music scene once used...
Reviewed by Nasim Masoud in issue: Apr/May/2010
Kassa
We first heard Mali’s Adama Yalomba on the 2003 Festival au Desert compilation. Then the trail went cold again. Kassa...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2010
Tarkat Tajje – Let’s Go
Our education in the music of the nomadic peoples of the Sahara has advanced rapidly in the years since Tinariwen...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2010
Across the Oceans
A jazz trio with a twist, Trio Ivoire is the brainchild of German pianist Hans Lüdemann and Ivorian balafon player...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2010
Masters of Indian Classical Music Volume II
This double–CD set follows on from an earlier compilation from ARC featuring more or less the same group of musicians...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Apr/May/2010
Smaa Smaa
Hasna El Becharia is the most famous living, breathing exponent of Algerian Gnawa, that raw and rolling Afro-Berber trance music...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2010
South India: Flowers and Ashes Hymns to Shiva
This is a disc of South Indian (Karnatic) singing in the temples of Tamil Nadu, the large state at the...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Apr/May/2010
Folk Awards 2010
Folk is a music built for hard times. So it’s entirely fitting that Show of Hands’ protest at recent outrages...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2010
Todo Transito
Just once in a while an album arrives in unexpected fashion and you hear a new original voice. It’s rare...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2010
