Reviews
Stockholm-Dakar
To get the back¬story out of the way first: Sousou and Maher Cissoko grew up on two different continents –...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2012
Tigres En Fuga
The recent surge in popularity for Peruvian cumbia (aka chicha), has seen the style adopted by bands from around the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2014
Returning Minimalism: New Works for Balinese Gamelan Gong Kebyar
A bird sings and insects hum in the background. A metallophone begins playing a rapid three-beat pattern. Another, played with...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: June/2012
Afro-Latin: Via Kinshasa
The hard part about putting together a killer compilation of music is not selecting the tracks, it's getting the licensing...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: October/2011
Aado
According to the old Lovin’ Spoonful song, there’s 1,352 guitar pickers in Nashville – a number that is surely dwarfed...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2021
ERA
Evidently believing he might not already have enough on his plate with a new album from Mànran only just out,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2017
Junun
Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express
‘I’m always a little wary of rock bands dabbling in world music,’ admitted Radiohead's guitarist Jonny Greenwood when talking about...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Buenas Noches, Compatriotas…
If Mercedes Sosa is South America’s Pachamama (Earth Mother), Atahualpa Yupanqui is undoubtedly its patriarch. Born in 1908 in Pergamino,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2013
LIVE – Olympiahalle München
LaBrassBanda hail from Bavaria, and this homecoming concert found them playing to 12,000 fans. You read that correctly: not 1,200...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
L'Odyssey
This excellent debut album from Middle Eastern/Caribbean duo Vocal Global qualifies as true world music in every sense. Israeli Noga...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: June/2017
