Reviews
Fiesta
Chico Bouchikhi co-founded the Gipsy Kings and wrote and arranged many of their 80s hits, before leaving in 1992 to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
The Elusive Highland Beauty
With their debut funded by a Kickstarter campaign, The Elephant Sessions describe themselves as a ‘neo-trad quintet forged in the...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Kathryn Tickell & The Side
The brilliant Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell has worked with classical musicians before, composing for the Nash Ensemble, percussionist Joanna MacGregor...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Amansara
Chancha Via Circuito is one of a group of producers that emerged from Buenos Aires in the mid-2000s as part...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Sheema
A veteran of Transglobal Underground and Imagined Village, the British sitar player Mukherjee has released her first solo album in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Never Let Me Cross Your Mind
Rip-roaring old-time music, with a few country surprises. This all-female ensemble tag their repertoire as ‘heart-breakin’ country harmonies and raging...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Kiriké
Over his long career, Kassé Mady Diabaté has been part of the fusion projects Songhai and AfroCubism, he has sung...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Film of Life
The man who Brian Eno has dubbed the finest drummer on the planet has made a string of intriguing albums...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Mountain Melodies: Rubab Music of Afghanistan
The rubab, the national instrument of Afghanistan, is one of the world's great plucked instruments. Its warm muscular sound is...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
The ABCD
Born and bred in London, the rapper Olushola Ajose, better known as Afrikan Boy, has re-examined his Nigerian roots in...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
