Reviews
Rock the Tabla
It's the Egyptian tabla that's the one presented here: the single-skinned goblet drum, aka darbuka, dumbek, among its many names....
Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Cosmologies
The village of Rääkkylä in Finnish Karelia has an important place in Finland's musical history as the birthplace, nearly 40...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2021
Empêche-Nous!
France's favourite southerners are back with more balladry about life in the port city of La Ciotat, near Marseille. This...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2012
Dakar Suite
Back in 2006, the German-born singer and jazz guitarist Leni Stern found herself performing at Mali's Festival in the Desert....
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2016
Marcos Valle JID003
Marcos Valle, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad
More than half a century after recording the seminal Samba ’68 album for Verve, Marcos Valle’s love affair with black...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2020
Soweto
Robson Banda and the New Black Eagles
Robson Banda started his career as a member of Thomas Mapfumo’s first group Acid Band. In Zimbabwe the chimurenga music...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: January/February/2022
Taos
Efrén López, Stelios Petrakis & Bijan Chemirani
In a trio setting there is little space to hide, so it is fortunate that each of the musicians here...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2018
Mamarron Vol 1
Mamarron Vol 1 aims to present a modern day representation of the Colombian tropical music scene, playfully dubbed ‘millennial cumbia’....
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2022
