Reviews
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Whirimako Black & Richard Nunns
It’s hard to think of two people more central to the recent resurgence of traditional Maori music than Whirimako Black...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Orchestre National de Mauritanie
Orchestre National de Maurianie
For a national orchestra, this combo had previously had a remarkably small discography: one 7” single to show for an...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Body Beat: Soca-Dub and Electronic Calypso (1979-98)
This compilation intriguingly connects many dots in the soca music story, while also (not unexpectedly for Soundway) throwing up musically...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
In a Hoary Winter’s Night
Joglaresa’s fifth album is a selection of ‘Irish and English Songs of Wintertide’. There is a wi de ra n...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Music for Hope
Indian sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan has done a few collaborative recordings with musicians from other traditions – for instance...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2023
Minka
The Eva Quartet are undoubtedly the finest current exponents of small group vocal music by Bulgarian composers and arrangers, rooted...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Avgi: Live in Heraklion Walls
Lyra virtuoso Stelios Petrakis is one of several talented young musicians to have emerged from the teaching and performance workshops...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: Apr/May/2015
Yeraz
Jivan Gasparyan Duduk Ensemble
There are few instruments as beautiful as the Armenian duduk. Its plaintive, reedy tone seems to exude melancholy. Djivan (or...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Live in Lesotho
In December 1980 the African businessman Victor Maloi arranged a concert for Masekela and Miriam Makeba in Lesotho, a country...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020
