Reviews
Toc de Crida
Every musician that picks up on tradition sooner or later must decide whether they try to stay true to an...
Reviewed by Goncalo Frota in issue: April/2024
Intizar
Mohammad Motamedi & Rembrandt Trio
When I visited the national Fajr Music Festival in Tehran for the first time, I walked into a performance by...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: April/2024
Dream
US-based bandleader of Mitra Sumara, Yvette Massoudi, covers 60s and 70s Iranian pop. Notably she pays tribute to the popular...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: April/2024
Just Leave It All Behind
Music doesn’t have to have words in order to say something. Just Leave It All Behind sees three instrumentalists coming...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2024
YIÊH
Gabon-born singer Pamela Badjogo honed her chops as a backing vocalist for Grammy-winning powerhouse diva Angélique Kidjo, then went on...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2024
Bomba Pop
Amsterdam Klezmer Band are full of chutzpah — or, as the Dutch say, gotspe. Just two years shy of the...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2024
Cara de Espelho
No one by now can be ignorant of the far-right rise all over the world. In Portugal, the alarm is...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2024
Precious Collection
The London-based klezmer duo of cellist Francesca Ter-Berg and violinist Flora Curzon return with the follow-up to their 2019 debut...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2024
Gjenskinn
Nils Økland has been at the heart of music-making in Norway for over 40 years. Rooted in Norway’s traditional violin...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2024
