Reviews
Dindin
From the age of eight, Kimi Djabaté was forced to sing and play balafón at weddings and baptisms in Guinea-Bissau...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2023
Kifak Inta
The retro-specialist Parisian label Wewantsounds continues its vinyl-only series of releases by Fairuz, the eminent Lebanese singer. This time it's...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: March/2023
The Norwegian Bagpipe (?) Vol II
Norwegian bagpipes? Trust me or, rather, trust Tellef Kvifte. He's one of Norwegian music's treasures: as professor of musicology researching...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2023
Dogo Du Togo
This self-titled debut is the solo project of Serge Massama Dogo, Togolese founder of the Afropop band Elikeh. Born in...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: March/2023
Asmara
Jazz trumpeter Hermon Mehari is a Kansas City native based in Paris, but his third album, Asmara, is a reflection...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2023
Collection of Traditional Musics 31: Peasant Brass Bands From Moldavia
Şarambel Brass Band from Valea Mare, Vaslui
This is the 31st disc in the remarkable collection of recordings of traditional Romanian music started by the late Speranța...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2023
Meu Único Medo É Primavera
After a brief opener in which the Paulistano musician intones the album's title four times to the sole accompaniment of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2023
Cordé Serré
Celtic communities have helped to shape Québec's heritage and, whether of Breton, Cornish, Scottish, Welsh, Irish or Mannian origin, most...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2023
