Reviews
Strange Circles
This new ensemble's name, Bokanté, is an apt summing-up of their sound. The word means ‘Exchange’ in Creole – the...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: August/2017
Peculiar, Missouri
One thing peculiar about Willi Carlisle’s Peculiar, Missouri is how peculiar it ain’t, except in the sense that the dozen...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2022
Éperdument… Chants d’Amour Persans
Trained to recite the Qur’an as he was being brought up, Alireza Ghorbani developed his vocal abilities at a young...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2015
Kizaki Ondo
Kizaki Ondo Preservation Society, Clark Naito
‘Kizaki Ondo’ is an Edo-period folk song that originated in the bustling post town of Nitta Kizakicho, Gunma Prefecture. It...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2019
Music from Saharan WhatsApp
Sahel Sounds’ groundbreaking 2011 compilation Music from Saharan Cellphones opened the world’s ears to the massive network of democratic digital...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: August/September/2022
Live Wires
Having spent too long wandering in debilitating heat to track down the Tambura Museum in Slavonski Brod (in eastern Croatia),...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2016
Thailand: Music and Songs from the Golden Triangle
Unreconstructed field recordings of folk songs and instrumental pieces may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but this collection provides...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
New Found Land
FatDog were born one night in the summer of 2011 on the Swedish Koster Islands, where jazz trio Fattigfolket and...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Mes Racines
The son of Slah Mosbah, a celebrated singer among Tunisia's marginalised black community from the southern desert lands on the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2018
