For Indian Ocean music aficionados, M’Toro Chamou of Mayotte is no new kid on the block. Since 1998, we have...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: June/2016
Fela Ransome Kuti and His Koola Lobitos
No other African musician has garnered as much global interest as Fela Kuti – Nigeria's creator of Afrobeat. His appeal...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2016
Still in his early 30s, Australian-Egyptian oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros has already released a dozen albums, three of which won...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2016
Land of Gold is a very personal response to the growing migration and refugee crisis. Across ten tracks, it follows...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2016
The musical influences of Turkey, Israel, Iraq, Iran and many other places can be heard in this intelligent collaboration from...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2016
The jazz album is often the second-last refuge of a career on the slide (reggae generally being the final resort...
Reviewed by David Hutcheon in issue: June/2016
It's been a long five years since the trio of singer Lucy Wright, fiddler Tom Kitching and one-man-band Edwin Beasant...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2016
David Broza & The Andalusian Orchestra Ashkelon
The most striking thing about this release is that it celebrates the often-overlooked Sephardic Jewish tradition of music that has...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2016
An interesting concept is this latest album by singer-songwriter and banjo-picker extraordinaire Edward D (for Danny) Barnes. A Texas native,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2016
Arguably the star of Vampisoul's collection Saoco!, percussionist Rafael Cortijo is now heard here on his own compilation. The album...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2016
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