Reviews
Songs from the Seasons
York-based Burnell has spent a year or so collecting and rearranging traditional tunes, releasing a song a week with the...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: June/2018
Melodic Melange
Anders Hagberg & Ahmad Al Khatib
Ahmad Al Khatib's last CD, Sabîl, was one of the most impressive solo oud recordings to have appeared in recent...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2015
Sin Aperture
Well, this is a strange album. Sin Aperture is the debut from a London-based, self-declared ‘adventure musician’ named James Adams....
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2015
1958
With his soulful voice, Cameroonian author and singer-songwriter Blick Bassy delivers a luminous and reflective album of 11 songs. Using...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: April/2019
Up
Two decades into a career that began by defining the Asian Underground scene, Karsh Kale's work has continued to develop...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: May/2016
African Scream Contest 2
It's been a decade since the release of the first African Scream Contest compilation. Much like that fascinating collection of...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: July/2018
Namaz
Some musical fusions languish in the superficial, achieving little more than a novel combination of disparate sounds, while others operate...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2018
Travels
Hawaiian-Japanese ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro has been taking his humble instrument in new directions for some years. On this latest...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2015
Kadodi
The transliteration of ritual practice to the club dance floor is always an interesting – and often politically charged –...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: April/2019
The Other Shore
Few artists are as cosmopolitan as Marta Topferova. Born and partly raised in Czechoslovakia, this 30-something singer-songwriter emigrated to the...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
