Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto
Given that for centuries in griot culture it was considered a solo instrument, the kora has in recent decades proved...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022
Aside from a Facebook page, on which they good-naturedly promote other bands playing good-time music in and around their hometown...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2013
With its musicality, playful melodies and wide mix of influences (samba, choro, pop and doo wop are all in the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Apr/May/2013
If you're familiar with the rumba catalana form of music, it may well be from listening to Ojos de Brujo,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
The music of Argentina's rural interior is all the things Buenos Aires' tango, blues, pop and rock are not: it...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2021
The fragmentation of Tibetan culture over the last half-century has led, for better or worse, to an astounding variety of...
Reviewed by Tom Hamilton in issue: July/2014
Based in the Scottish Highlands, but with a line-up also drawn from California, Cape Breton and Ireland, Dàimh (pronounced ‘dive’,...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: October/2010
Brooklyn-based guitarist-composer Grant Gordy's first album in more than a decade, Peripheral Visions, is an impressive addition to the chamber...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2023
This Belgium-based band take their name (meaning ‘the bodysnatcher’) from a novel by Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguay's most celebrated fiction-writer....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2014
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