This is the first solo release from the British sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun. It features a large cast...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2022
The piano keys fall like drops of water, the violin soars like a gull over 0resund, while the delicate pluck...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Penguin Cafe Orchestra | Simon Jeffes
The orchestra that was the fruit of a feverish, food-poisoned dream in the south of France in the early 1970s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
For the last five decades, Polobi, from Guadeloupe has been drumming and singing gwo ka music in the Caribbean island's...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: April/2023
South and Central America are dotted with communities made up of the descendants of African slaves who escaped their oppressors....
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Ravi Shankar's widow Sukanya testifies in the liner notes to the particular ‘magical, transcendent experience’ of her husband performing in...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Perhaps in response to endless gags about their instrument being anti-social — ‘a gentleman is a man who can play...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
A six-piece UK- based fusion band, Fernando’s Kitchen grew out of a meeting on London’s South Bank between two buskers:...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2014
The Finnish harmonica band Sväng have made a series of photographs on different modes of transport – motorbike sidecar, railway...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2019
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