Reviews
Visions of Iraq
Ahmed Mukhtar is a London-based Iraqi musician, renowned for his masterful playing of the oud. On Visions of Iraq, Mukhtar performs...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2019
Classic American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways
The newest instalment of Smithsonian Folkways’ splendid vault-raiding Classic series compiles 25 songs written between 1836 and 1947 about topical...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Acoustic Tarab Alchemy
Odradek is a new label that produces and promotes artists on the simple basis of blind auditions from submitted demos....
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2018
The Sargasso Season
From the first few bars of the opening title-track, The Sargasso Season resounds with mellifluous beauty stemming from the pairing...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2022
Ndebele Songs
Many music lovers will be familiar with the isicathamiya style of singing, thanks to southern African groups such as Ladysmith...
Reviewed by Brian Chikwava in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
20sth
Perhaps the first thing to point out – although it’s not immediately noticeable on first listen – is that this...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: May/2017
Borderlands
Borderlands crosses boundaries in two ways. Haddo is the duo of husband and wife Nicky and Will Pound: she hails...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2014
A Curva Da Cintura (Mali-Brasil)
Arnaldo Antunes, Toumani Diabaté & Edgard Scandurra
After AfroCubism's Grammy-winning Mali Cuba album, are we about to see a spate of similarly styled cash-ins? Well, no worries,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2012
