Reviews
Yakar
After years spent playing percussion in L’orchestre Nationale du Senegal and backing the likes of Youssou N’Dour on tour, Diagne,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2013
Jasmine Flower
The Paris-based erhu (two-stringed fiddle) player Guo Gan is part of a burgeoning generation of traditional East Asian musicians who...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Flight on Light
‘New Age’ and ‘tranquil’ are the first words that come to mind in describing this disc from Greek clarinetist Manos...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Shona Ritual Music
The mbira or lamellophone has one of the world's most hypnotic and transcendental sounds. Often called the thumb piano, a...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Dance of the Cobra
To anyone familiar with the vibrant sounds of Indian wedding bands, this will come as a welcome album. What they...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
None the Wiser
If you're looking for one of the finest contemporary poet-singers in England, look no further than the man with an...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China
This highly personal collection of music is the distillation of 55 CDs’ worth of source material lovingly recorded between 2006...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Freedom Cry:Condemned Choirs
More than 550 men and women sit on death row in Uganda's prisons, condemned for crimes that include not only...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Divine
Maria Tanase is often referred to as ‘the Romanian Piaf’: both were distinctive vocalists who took a local vernacular music...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Bones of Contention
From the streets of Glasgow, this trio – guitarist and singer John Langan, Alastair Caplin on fiddle, and double bassist...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
