Reviews

Tropix

Céu

It's easy to forget how much of a revelation Céu was when she released her self-titled debut in 2005. Seductive...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2016

Epleslang

MAAR

Here's a party, a celebration and an exploration by musicians who come from different backgrounds yet who share a chemistry...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2016

Maggio

Riccardo Tesi & Banditaliana

Maggio stands alongside past highlights from this solid, masterful quartet: it embraces Tuscan and Central Italy's traditional music, hints of...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2016

Hermitage

Jambinai

Portentous track titles such as ‘Abyss’ and ‘Echo of Creation’ hint at the nature of this South Korean trio's crusade....

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2016

Ahimsa: Love is the Weapon of the Brave

Arohi Ensemble

Musicians from Kolkata, Los Angeles and Caracas – among them, three disciples of the late sitar legend Ravi Shankar –...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2016

Santana IV

Santana

The ground-breaking Afro-Latin rock fusion of Carlos Santana and his band set alight the 1969 Woodstock festival and opened the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016

Ashofak Baden

Tarabband

Singer Nadin Al Khalidi saw a selfie of a Yazidi couple in northern Iraq that they had posted on social...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2016

Last Evenings on Earth

Melt Yourself Down

‘World fusion’ bands often don’t do much fusing at all. Instead, they might have some ska numbers, an Éthiopiques-style track...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: July/2016

The Happiest Man in the World

Eric Bibb & North Country Far & Danny Thompson

Eric Bibb refutes the stereotype of the bluesman as bad-ass drunkard who would sell his soul so to play music...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2016

Future Sound of Ukraine: Borsh Division

VARIOUS ARTISTS

As Vlad Trotsky, theatre director and conceptual genius behind DakhaBrakha, once put it: ‘Old Europe is tired and cynical and...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: July/2016