Reviews
Banish Air from Air
Award-winning guitarist Ben Walker has gathered an ensemble cast of collaborators for this, his second album. The dreamy opening title-track...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2023
Pa Mi Tres
Yarima Blanco won the De la Tradición Sonera y Campesina (From the Son and Country Tradition) award at last year's...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2023
Saigon Supersound Vol 3
This is the third and final volume in the Saigon Supersound series, covering the ‘Golden Era’ of south Vietnamese popular...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: April/2023
Ez Kî Me
Even though this is actress and singer Meral Polat's homage to her Kurdish roots, the music on her debut album,...
Reviewed by Ton Maas in issue: April/2023
Jokoto
The ‘Jr’ is important here in order to avoid confusion with Kerfala's more famous older brother, who was also confusingly...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2023
New Sound of the Middle East
The album title certainly makes a brave claim, but in many ways the music lives up to it, for Hagai...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2023
Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and Gambia
It has long been recognised that the banjo's history can be traced back to West Africa, though until recently it...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: April/2023
Passarinho
The Brazilian cultural archetype, the Passarinho or ‘Little Bird,’ serves as a harbinger of environmental disaster on this singer-songwriter's second...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2023
Li Pedi
Nisia Trio's Li Pedi is an album for the ears as well as for the feet. Dancing their way from...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: April/2023
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
