Reviews
What's Not Enough About That?
This third album shows how Vula Viel have very quickly become a band whose new releases you breathlessly await and...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
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
