Reviews
Starfall
Dublin-based string trio Slow Moving Clouds hit the mark with their 2015 debut, Os, a melding of delicate, warm melodies,...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2018
Hayvan Gibi
The intimacy of hearing – and seeing – Baba Zula Live has Lately surpassed the experience of Listening to some...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2020
What Makes Bob Holler
There can be few outfits whose name describes their modus operandi quite as fittingly as Hot Club Of Cowtown. If...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Island Catch
This is the second full-length release from Taiwanese pipa player Yufeng and American singer and acoustic guitarist Chen, and the...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: April/2021
1973-1980
Born in Guinea-Conakry, singer and percussionist Amara Touré wandered peripatetically across West African music for 20 or so years –...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Ancoradouro
It is no minor achievement to have secured the blessing of Fausto Bordalo Dias. He is a key figure in...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2016
Connections
When they collaborated on the Bombay Dreams musical a few years ago, Andrew Lloyd Webber declared Rahman to be ‘the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Rock & Roll Jihad
Junoon have been Pakistan’s leading rock group for the last 20 years, but the latest release under the banner is...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Tastes Like LA
So diverse is Latin American music that most artists, when they come to fusions, choose a couple of elements and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2017
