Reviews
The Book of Transfigurations
American singer Julia Úlehla and guitarist Aram Bajakian are the core of Dálava, a Vancouver-based collective. Their source material lies...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/2017
L'Amazone: Le Chant des Fleuves
The Amazon has been imagined as a tree, its trunk passing from Brazil through Colombia and into Peru, with branches...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2020
Daora: Underground Sounds of Urban Brasil – Hip-Hop, Beats, Afro & Dub
When it comes to cinema, ‘urban’ may be a synonym for gritty andmonochromatic, but that is most certainly not the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2013
The Sound of the Soul
Rarely do traditional Chinese instrumental recordings come in handsome packaging, with English and Chinese texts so well laid out. Rarely...
Reviewed by Joanna Lee in issue: March/2011
Underwater Dub
Listening to this album I immediately asked myself a question: who in the world needs another dub album in 2014?...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2014
Mande Guitar: African Guitar Series, Vol 1
This first release on a new label launched by Banning Eyre, presenter of the Afropop Worldwide radio show and all-round...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Empatica
Sardinian actress, singer and songwriter Bissiri works in Spain and this is her solo debut after releasing a couple of...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2023
Mukunguni: New Recordings from Coast Province, Kenya
Mukunguni, a village in the Coast Province of Kenya, next to the Indian Ocean, is home to the Mijikenda tribe....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2013
Koima
The West first heard the guitarist and singer Sidi Touré, from Gao in northern Mali, in 1996 when Stern’s released...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2012
