Reviews
Don’t Give Up
Born in Kinshasa, Jason Tamba, who began playing guitar at the age of seven on a homemade instrument, went on...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2022
Oras Dezaoradas
Lily Henley is a storyteller. Here she weaves traditional Sephardic Jewish ballads (alongside three originals) into her own melodic compositions,...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: July/2022
For the Love of Tabla
North India’s favourite percussion instrument, the tabla, has always been relegated to being an accompaniment and it was the subservient,...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2022
Dan Masks
Back in 1984, the renowned ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp noted the tension he felt between his scientific analysis ‘and the pleasure...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2022
Bahia Com H
Perhaps because she worked alongside the likes of Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento – among other Brazilian greats –...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2022
Tall Ships and Tavern Tales
This double album of songs from their two-part stage show of the same name is described by Devon’s self-styled ‘original...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2022
Project Locrea
The American capital is a hub, where many great musicians from all corners of the world for years have put...
Reviewed by Torben Holleufer in issue: July/2022
Amor (É Revolução)
It’s been ten years since Maga Bo released Quilombo do Futuro, his last solo full-length, and the sound hasn’t changed...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2022
This Too
For the follow-up to their acclaimed debut album Free One in 2017, this Glasgow-based instrumental ensemble of fiddlers Laura Wilkie,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2022
Tichazomuona
This is a very welcome reissue in vinyl and digital download formats of a wonderful album of Zimbabwean mbira (thumb...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2022
