Reviews
Karantamba
Tiny Gambia has always struggled to maintain a musical identity beside its mighty neighbour, Senegal. For long periods its music...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: June/2012
Bending the Dark
Here is music that illustrates how all culture begins as an idea in the human mind. The third Imagined Village...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2012
State and Ancientry
They've played together as a duo for a decade now. But these former Kerfuffle members keep busy: Sam Sweeney is...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2012
Kanabory Siyama
When the great kora (harp-lute) player Kaouding Cissoko died in 2003, he was replaced in Baaba Maal's band by Diabel,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2012
Father Creeper
Singer, rapper, songwriter, producer and instrumentalist Mathambo (real name Nthato Mokgata) was born and raised in Soweto. I was about...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2012
Maori New Zealand
Based in the central Lake Taupo region of New Zealand's North Island, the large Nga Tamariki O Tongariro group perform...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2012
Warato'o
Solomon Islands’ ensemble Narasirato may be panpipers, but forget any notion that this nine-piece group plays some sort of Melanesian...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2012
Tangos Pendientes
The fourth track on this album is ‘Jacinto Chiclana’, a poem by Jorge Luis Borges. Its music is folksy and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2012
Trio
The tanbur is a longnecked, fretted string instrument with a hemispheric body. It came to epitomise classical music for the...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: June/2012
