Napra is a Hungarian folk band that deserves to be heard. They bring a rock attitude to traditional music with...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Seyed Ali Jaberi & Sina Sarlak
Recorded live in concert at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, this album is a celebration of the...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: November/2018
You may be forgiven for approaching this with trepidation: a Danish rock‘n’roll band playing along with qawwali (the sacred music...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: August/2017
Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin
The Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and the 25-year-old American singer Julia Easterlin met in New York in 2014 when...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2015
Ocora's long history of field recordings has played an important role in the documentation of musical traditions from around the...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2015
A rare vinyl copy of Balka Sound’s 1984 album Afro Musik Creation is currently on offer at $275 on the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023
With so few CDs of Burmese traditional music actually available in the West, this is an important and exciting release....
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: March/2011
It is unsurprising that black South African music in recent years has lacked the game-changing potency it enjoyed when soundtracking...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2021
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