Reviews
Pasichigare: Mystic Mbira Music of Zimbabwe
Chartwell Dutiro is the artistic director of the Mhararano Mbira Academy in Devon, England. He is one of the leading...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2014
El Baile de las Horas
Marina Abad was the powerful, husky-voiced fulcrum of flamenco, hip-hop, Latin fusioneers Ojos de Brujo until they disbanded in 2011....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2014
My Vote Dey Count
Yaaba Funk are very much a London band: British and European, black and white, mixed-gender and politically engaged but intent...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2014
Stradivarius in Rio
Viktoria Mullova’s 2012 autobiography From Russia to Love describes how at the age of 24 she fled Soviet Russia in...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2014
Duw Duw
An abiding affinity for Cajun and zydeco music permeates Duw Duw, the debut album by London-based singer-guitarist Dai Price and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2014
Como la Luna y el Sol
There is now a legion of different approaches to Sephardic song but two predominate. There’s the scholarly, supposedly authentic manner,...
Reviewed by Dennis Marks in issue: June/2014
Beaucoup De Piment!
The principal styles of this debut are spunky Afrobeat and tepid jazz fusion, with the emphasis, disappointingly, on the latter....
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2014
Kenya: The Obokano, Lyre of the Gusii
The area of north-east Africa, between the Nile and the Indian Ocean, is a heartland of lyres - from the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2014
At Kriol Junction
It’s been five years since this multi¬cultural collective’s compelling and original debut album More Big Musik from Over There! But...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: June/2014
