Reviews
El Gaucho
El Gaucho is the superbly atmospheric soundtrack to Andrés Jarach's documentary road movie about Andrés Retamal, a taciturn Argentinian horse–...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2010
ABCDEFG
The Chumbas are never short of a thing or two to say and on their latest album it’s music itself...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2010
Maiteí America: Harps of Paraguay
Most of the music here consists of harps and nothing else. Yet this album is a little beauty. Twenty of...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2010
Salamander
Salamander boasts not one but two conflagration– related tunes. The title-track was written by Bellevue Rendezvous’ fiddle player, Gavin Marwick,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2010
Fiesta Balkanica
World music compilations tend to fall into two categories: a selection put together with deep knowledge of a particular region...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Apr/May/2010
Shalom Salam
Senegalese reggae singer Niominka Bi, whose name means ‘the fisherman’ in the Wolof language, has been around on the French...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2010
Pomegranates
Given the current political climate in Iran it is hard to imagine that a vibrant pop music scene once used...
Reviewed by Nasim Masoud in issue: Apr/May/2010
Kassa
We first heard Mali’s Adama Yalomba on the 2003 Festival au Desert compilation. Then the trail went cold again. Kassa...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2010
Tarkat Tajje – Let’s Go
Our education in the music of the nomadic peoples of the Sahara has advanced rapidly in the years since Tinariwen...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2010
Across the Oceans
A jazz trio with a twist, Trio Ivoire is the brainchild of German pianist Hans Lüdemann and Ivorian balafon player...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2010
