Reviews
Tango Roto Live
Johanna Juhola has earned herself a reputation as one of the finest Finnish accordionists to emerge in recent years: a...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Apr/May/2011
Iram
Appropriately enough this disc begins with the gently rippling sound of the cimbalom before taking of into the catchy opening...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2019
Curao
Quantic has been working with Nidia Góngora since 2011. The Colombian singer and Grupo Canalón de Timbiqui bandleader has popped...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2017
Calypsos, Boogies, Rockers, Ballads & Bluebeat: The Rise of Black Music in Britain
There has been a surge of interest over recent years in the roots of black music in Britain. The London...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Amalgam
Amjad, Amaan & Ayaan Ali Khan & Elmira Darvarova
Ever since Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin recorded the violin and sitar duos of West Meets East in the 1960s,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Libertad (Freedom)
When I first heard her debut album, La Juderia, seven years ago, I was convinced that Yasmin Levy had the...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
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 by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020
Trans-Continental Hustle
Everyone's favourite Gypsy punk outfit is back with their fifth album and yes, it's another big musical mash-up of klezmer,...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2010
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 by Liam Izod in issue: May/2020
After the City
The Brighton band’s third album is a smokily atmospheric folk noir not a million miles from the fearsome futurology of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2022
