Reviews
Zhyli-Byli
Sergei Starostin is a major figure on the Russian folk scene, yet he’s still all too little known, despite his...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2011
More Big Musik from Over There!
Even though the title is pretty terrible, there’s an elegant charm about this Sheffield-based collective’s debut that’s missing from many...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Exotic Other
Animanz are three musical childhood friends, based in London, who front a collective committed to playing party tunes in which...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2018
Zoo of Songs
German group Pulsar Trio have transplanted the emblematic instrument of Hindustani classical music – the sitar – into a northern...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: November/2018
Towards Other Worlds
Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra formed in late 2007 at a series of late night Afrobeat sessions at a Leeds-based jazz venue...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2013
Your Mother Was a Peacock
Oxlip is Vancouver-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jayne Trimble, originally from Northern Ireland, and her philosophy on Your Mother Was a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2021
Afrotropism
Although Danish seven-piece The Kutimangoes originally aimed for the crossroads between Afrobeat and jazz, further musical adventures have edged their...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2019
Lodestar
In 1959 Shirley Collins collected songs with Alan Lomax in the US. But she loved the songs of the English...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Le Monde Moderne
Welcome to volume two of a mesmeric voyage into the very bowels of the capital of Niger, Niamey, and beyond....
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: May/2023
