Reviews
Thai? Dai! The Heavier Side of the Luk Thung Underground
The typical Thai luk thung (often described as ‘country music’) shows of the 1970s were glitzy affairs with huge orchestras...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: Apr/May/2011
La Voz Del Mar
Hailing from Guapi on the Pacific Coast, but residing in Cali, Colombia, Xiomara Torres displays both her traditional roots and...
Reviewed by Jenna Mackle in issue: November/2022
Sweet as Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa
Sweet as Broken Dates is a collection of Somali-language pop recorded in Somalia, Somaliland and Djibouti from the 1960s right...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2017
Fios de Ouro No Ár
Harp player and Milladoiro founder Rodrigo Romaní is one of the foremost exponents of Galician folk, playing a leading role...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Rajatila/Borderline
The Finnish a capella quartet Tuuletar made quite an impression with their first album Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal in 2016...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2019
1970s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
A pair of fascinating albums mining a fruitful seam of musical esoterica – the Algerian 45rpm vinyl releases of the...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Amina
Three years ago I reviewed Amerli, by a collection of 20 instrumentalists and singers from Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Oficina Itinerante
Jean-Luc Thomas is a Breton flute player who describes himself as ‘musician and traveller’; previous collaborations have brought him together...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: May/2020
Ghazals and Thumris: From the Musical Heart of Budapest
Pratibha Singh Baghel, Kavya Limaye, Deepak Pandit, The Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Ghazal and thumri are wonderful poetic sung genres from northern South Asia, emerging out of 19th-century courtesan and Muslim traditions...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: May/2023
