Reviews
Souffles des Steppes
Henri Tournier & Enkhjargal Dandarvaanchig
Souffles des Steppes (Breath of the Steppes) is the follow-up to the excellent 2015 album Souffles du Monde, on which...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: October/2017
Tales of Indian Sarod
Pradeep Barot, Riccardo Battaglia, Federico Sanesi
Pradeep Barot studied under Annapurna Devi – a surbahar (bass sitar) virtuoso, daughter of the legendary Allauddin Khan and once...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: October/2017
Basant
Johnny Kalsi has been running the Dhol Foundation now for more than 25 years, while also banging his double-sided Punjabi...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2017
Mali Blues: The Film Soundtrack
This is the soundtrack to a documentary by the German filmmaker Lutz Gregor, which chronicles the return to Mali of...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2017
Veer
Griselda Sanderson & Ricardo de Noronha
Griselda Sanderson and Ricardo de Noronha met on stage a couple of years ago and have been making music together...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2017
Marimba del Pacífico
Spanish-speaking South America's African music remains a largely untold story. For more than two centuries the culture of those descended...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2017
Travelers
Three years ago, the Brooklyn-based artist collective Found Sound Nation and the US embassy in Islamabad collaborated to launch the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2017
Canzoni della Cupa
Vinicio Capossela's new double album contains songs that have emerged slowly over a decade. These 23 tracks are divided into...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: October/2017
Daba
The simple, unaffected, sound of the traditional ngoni (lute) is one of West Africa's most distinctive and evocative musical delights....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2017
