Reviews

From Nubia to Cairo

Ali Hassan Kuban

First released back in 1989, when ‘world music’ was young, this set is as life-enhancing and plain funky as an...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2019

Affric

Duncan Chisholm

Chisholm was born and raised in Inverness, in the Scottish Highlands. He learned under the late, great fiddler player, composer...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Sujud

Senyawa

Since 2010, avant-garde Javanese duo Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi have been conducting a series of sonic trials on the...

Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: May/2019

About Land

Mira Pardelha

Mira Pardelha's story starts in 1998 when Canadian musicians Jason Breckenridge and Ian Brimacombe were flatmates in Lisbon and first...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2020

Legacy

Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band

‘Authentic’ is one of those overused terms that doesn't always carry the gravitas it deserves. So, trust me, when I...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Nádúr

Clannad

Nádúr delivers the first new material from Clannad in a decade and a half and arrives as the Irish icons...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Queen Between

Susheela Raman

When confronted with an impressive new album, there's always a temptation to hail it as the artist's ‘best work to...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2014

Brazil: Sambossica 3

VARIOUS ARTISTS

There is so much exciting music coming out of Brazil right now. However you wouldn’t think so from Sambossica 3....

Reviewed by DJ Cliffy in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Chant Amazigh

Majid Soula

Even devoted followers of Algerian music may find the name Majid Soula rings no bells – thankfully, the latest (number...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2022

Ghetto Blasters

Mahala Rai Banda

And so the part) goes on. It seems hard to believe that Romanian Gypsy firebrands MRB have only been around...

Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Jan/Feb/2010