The great Malian singer Khaira Arby died in 2018, so archive recordings have now become even more valuable. This 2010...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2021
Born in Libya but long based in Egypt, Hamid El Shaeri is a superstar of popular Arabic music. This album...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2022
Iranian percussionist Keyvan Chemirani leads an impressive group, bringing together Persian mystical poetry and Breton laments – it's slightly similar...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Every track on this CD deserves to be played on repeat until they are all etched, beat for beat, into...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Limpid and lyrical, Susan Grace Bates’ debut album features sympathetic and understated arrangements set around her mastery of the clarsach,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2015
This is the second album by the Athens-based band, and it's nothing if not varied. Taking some of their own...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2011
Toni Kitanovski & Cherkezi Orchestra
Macedonian jazz guitarist Kitanovski studied at the Berklee College of Music in the US, and like most of its graduates...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Apr/May/2012
Leonardo Marques, guitarist of Udora and sound recordist to the likes of Milton Nascimento, returns with a fourth solo project,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: November/2022
Pop-culture history is littered with actors chancing their arm at cutting records, from Robert Mitchum’s dalliances with calypso through to...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2010
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