Reviews
KahraMusiqa
Singer-songwriter Badiâa Bouhrizi should really be a household name in global music circles. In Tunisia, her birthplace, she is beloved...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/September/2023
Kolkhozoy Traktor
If you’re a fan of the great festival-pleasing, throat-singing Yat-Kha, then this should be on your radar. Shono's founder, Alexander...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: August/September/2023
Lubber's Hole
The clue to the USP with She Shanties is in the name: women singing sea shanties. This is their third...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: August/September/2023
Nakibembe Embaire Group
Nakibembe is a small village in Uganda's Busoga Kingdom, where the residents preserve the local tradition of playing and dancing...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/September/2023
Weaving My Ancestors’ Voices
There's something plainly refreshing about witnessing an artist following their own path, uninhibited. Chandra's trilogy of albums – first released...
Reviewed by Anita Bhadani in issue: August/September/2023
JID018
Recorded in 2018 in Los Angeles some 18 months before his death, this is Allen with his jazz head on,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2023
Moving Home
From Bosnia to Brisbane via Sweden and Slovenia, the Australian-based trio East of West span all points of the compass...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2023
Journey Across the Steppes
Recordings of Turkmen musicians are few and far between. Oghlan Bakhshi, born Mohammad Geldi Geldi Nejad in 1993, is a...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2023
Raga Yaman
Uday Bhawalkar is a maestro of dhrupad, an ancient Indian classical vocal style, believed to be the world's oldest musical...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: August/September/2023
Babi
Touareg music hasn't always been about electric guitars and the Tamashek quartet Al Bilali Soudan (an ancient name for the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2023
