Reviews
Zār Songs for the Spirits
Zār is a rite that arrived in Egypt with migration – partly due to slavery – from sub-Saharan East Africa....
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: March/2022
Solotronic
His professional career is 24 years old, yet French Tunisian oud (lute) player Jean-Pierre Smadj continues to surprise his followers....
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: April/2018
The Tapi Project
Tapi put their best feet forward on opener ‘Paigam’, with a surando (folk fiddle) sample introducing a reflective vocal refrain....
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2019
Gossip
This is veteran Malian singer Khaira Arby's first album in five years, recorded in 2010 and 2012 in various parts...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2015
The Next Generation
Groundation are a reggae group who formed at Sonoma State University in 1998. The original members were all studying jazz...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2018
Cruzando Borders
The Grammy-winning Los Texmaniacs play music that celebrates the people and places of the Texas-Mexico borderlands: corridos, boleros and less...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2018
Migrants
Lúcio is a seminal character in Cape Verdean culture, a singer, composer, poet, novelist, playwright, painter and politician who spent...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2023
Pretty Peggy
The second album from the Cornish-based singer, Britain's Got Talent finalist and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner develops the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2017
Mulher do Norte
There is hardly a greater challenge to any fadista than addressing the immaculate and unbeatable Amália Rodrigues’ repertoire. Amália cannot...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2016
The Other Side of the Air
Canadian Jayme Stone can count his banjo playing as being just the beginning of a host of achievements on this...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: March/2014
