Reviews
This is Tehran?
Getting their music heard outside of Iran can be tricky for artists working in the oppressive environment enforced by the...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2021
YITA (Deep Water)
Ivorian-American singer Fely Tchaco released her fifth album on International Women’s Day (March 8), a gesture intended to underline its...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2021
Bennesbeh Labokra… Chou?
This is an interesting release – Ziad Rahbani is the son of Lebanon’s foremost diva, Fairuz, and her husband, Assi...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2021
Versos Do Mundo
The ‘Verses of the World’ of the title are the texts and songs for Mess’ third album, which the Afro-Brazilian...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2021
Distant Mountains
Recorded live in concert at the Morgenland Festival in Osnabrück, Germany, Distant Mountains is an album of duets by Chinese...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2021
The Silver Sun
Although recorded in less than a single day, there is nothing rushed or hurried about Eamon O’Leary’s characteristically laid-back third...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2021
Afrique Victime
The last album by Mdou Moctar, often dubbed ‘the Hendrix of the Sahara,’ was a devastatingly deadly assault by electric...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: July/2021
Kindred Souls
Nothing should really surprise us in the global village of world music any more, but even so Adrian Freedman’s CV...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2021
Avant Folk II
This is Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli’s follow-up to 2018’s original Avant Folk album, reuniting the same ten-piece ensemble. Its four...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2021
