Sleepless Nights is a palatable musical aperitif for those uninitiated into Indian classical music, as well as being pleasant drive¬time...
Reviewed by Kulbir Natt in issue: July/2010
On a first listen to this debut album from Nottingham-based Gambian musician Sura Susso, the word that kept coming to...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2011
This album by one of the best-known students of the legendary Shivkumar Sharma is a masterclass in santoor playing. In...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: May/2019
Ibrahim Maalouf’s family fled the civil war in Lebanon in the early 1980s to settle in the suburbs of Paris....
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011
Bellowhead are a heavy metal outfit, Reich-like minimalists, vocal harmony virtuosi, a brass-blasting jazz combo, a shanty crew and squeezebox-driven...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
The third in the African Anthology series continues to feature music predominantly sourced from the former Portuguese colonies, plus some...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Makossa united the tastes of a divided Cameroon, not least because it was a musical style that could bend around...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2017
The second album from the Burkinabé kamalengoni player Massa Dembele has a much bigger sound compared to his mostly solo...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Leon Rosselson, Reem Kelani & Janet Russell
I seem to have been emotionallyinvolved with the Israel/Palestine conflict for most of my life’, explains satirist and political singer-songwriter...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
This is the latest in a very occasional series of duo albums by the Dominican pianist Michel Camilo and Andalusian...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
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