Reviews
Visit Malphino
The continuing globalisation of cumbia has seen it travel from Colombia's Caribbean coast to urban dance halls, stadium rock shows,...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
Sun Gong/Bring on the Sun
Four decades ago, zitherist Edward Larry Gordon made his debut on a small US label. Then, renamed Laraaji, he collaborated...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
The Fighting Kangaroo
The cover looks like an Aussie road sign, but the trio of musicians – who sound like a much bigger...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
Queens & Kings
This is the debut recording from an Afrobeat and highlife band formed in 2016, comprised of musicians from Ghana, the...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
Acoustic Tarab Alchemy
Odradek is a new label that produces and promotes artists on the simple basis of blind auditions from submitted demos....
Reviewed in issue June/2018
5 Star Motel
It's hard to find out anything about Gitkin. It appears that this is the almost-one-man-band's debut record; 5 Star...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
The World of Traditional Music
Alongside Nonesuch's Explorer series, Ocora is perhaps the most important mother lode of authentic 20th-century field recordings of world music....
Reviewed in issue May/2018
Koum Tara: Chaâbi, Jazz and Strings
Disregard the rather bland title: this album is a luminous jewel. It's an uncommon mixture, to say the least, based...
Reviewed in issue May/2018
Alerta Canibal
Founders of Spain's mestizo movement, fusing salsa, rock, ska, funk, cumbia and the rhythms of Afrobeat with the attitude of...
Reviewed in issue May/2018
Music Without Borders
It's been nearly 20 years since the release of the groundbreaking album From Senegal to Setesdal, the outstanding and legendary...
Reviewed in issue May/2018
