Moussa Pantio Diabaté & Baragnouma
Moussa Pantio Diabaté is a balafon (xylophone) player from Burkina Faso. With the help of Arts Council funding he was...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2013
As readers of Songlines probably know, Latin music was re-Africanised after World War II when wind-up phonographs made it to...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: October/2011
This second album from the 20-year-old Derbyshire musician reveals a talent and a sense of adventurousness in terms of instrumentation...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2011
Davit Drambyan, born in Armenia and living and working in Germany, is a musician and composer with a considerable number...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2022
Over the last few years the Bamako-based producer Paul Chandler has travelled across Mali making field recordings of traditional musicians...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2016
Eric Jacobson, Kayhan Kalhor, Sandeep Das
The quality of this album comes as no surprise when you discover that it has close connections to Yo-Yo Ma’s...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2021
The concept of marrying traditional songs with heavy electronic dance music is a curious one, conjuring notions of the Pet...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2022
Rafiki Jazz, the global band who bring together all manner of musicians so to demonstrate that music knows no borders,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Opening with ‘Triunfal’, a typically lyrical, mood-swinging Astor Piazzolla number, this UK-based quintet set out the stall of their second...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2020
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