Reviews
Strung Deep
This is the first recording from guitarist Marcus Corbett, who has been active on both the British folk and Indian...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2013
Growing Up Wild
This is a great find – a modern journey to southern Taiwan with balladeer Lin Sheng Xiang and his Japanese...
Reviewed by Joanna Lee in issue: March/2010
Baladi Blues 3: The Art of Baligh Hamdi
Guy Schalom & The Baladi Blues Ensemble
Baladi is a very particular Egyptian fusion. The name literally means ‘my country’ and its roots lie in the rural...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
O Aperto da Saudade
Far Out’s aim for this record was to compile a selection of Brazilian tracks that convincingly epitomise the untranslatable Portuguese...
Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: October/2020
Arctic Spirit: Music from the Siberian North
German & Claudia Khatylaev | Spiridon Shishigin | Zarina Kopyrina & Ilya Zhirkov
Sakha, or Yakutia, is a land of mammoths, gold and diamonds: a Siberian territory that sits atop permafrost and is...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Songs of Rebirth: Tribute to Rumi
The world outside of Iran has been comparatively late in coming to recognise Ali Reza Ghorbani as part of the...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: October/2010
Muraqaba
Fanna-fi-Allah, meaning ‘To Annihilate the Self,’ is the name of a Canadian-American group specialising in qawwali, the devotional music of...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: December/2018
The Turbans
This is an album that surprises, impresses and leaves you feeling slightly giddy – like a kosh over the head,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2018
Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra
Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra
In 2014 Tony Allen visited Haiti to perform with local musicians at a concert in Port-Au-Prince's main square. He was...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
