Reviews
Togetherings
Afrobeat! It started in the West African tropics and blazed a trail almost as far as the Arctic… well, Finland,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2019
The Four Pillars
This multimedia project first began to take shape when musician, composer, producer and arranger Mike Vass, formerly with Malinky and...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2019
I Love You Inna
Hailing from Gao in northern Mali, Konaté's roots are steeped in the desert blues of the Songhai people. But the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2019
Gobi Desert
Stretching across an expanse of terrain joining Central Asia to northern China, the Gobi Desert is the location of several...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2019
Night Song
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook
Night Song was the second time the Pakistani devotional qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan had worked with Canadian producer...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2019
Easy Money
Four years on from his intriguing Domestic Eccentric collection, the Canadian singer-songwriter, born Christopher Luedecke, is not only more domestic...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2019
The Nefes of the Bektâshî Sufi Brotherhood in Istanbul and the Balkans
This album explores peripheries, spirituality and history. Arising from the seventh Bîrûn workshop in Ottoman music organised by neyzen (a...
Reviewed by Thomas Graves in issue: October/2019
The Greatest Day
There's never been any doubt that Jake Shimabukuro is a remarkable ukulele player. From his early success in Hawaii with...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2019
A Path of Light
When Jeff Adler sat down to write a song as a gift for his friend's daughter on the occasion of...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: October/2019
