Reviews
Oriental Mirrors
Romanian improvising unit Multumult have released four studio sessions, but this is their first live album, recorded at Bucharest’s Green...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2024
2011: A Space Odyssey
The liner notes of this debut album say that the release is a tribute to the ‘musicians of Cambodia's Golden...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
South India: Flowers and Ashes Hymns to Shiva
This is a disc of South Indian (Karnatic) singing in the temples of Tamil Nadu, the large state at the...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Apr/May/2010
Cloud Wandering
One of the foremost performers of Okinawan folk music, vocalist and sanshin (banjo-like lute) player Takashi Hirayasu came to prominence...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2019
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Mien (Yao): Canon Singing in China, Vietnam, Laos
This album features four intricate samples of canon singing from Mien (Yao) hill tribes living in China, Vietnam and Laos....
Reviewed by Frank Kouwenhoven in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Recordar é Viver: Antologia Vol 1
This anthology provides an excellent opportunity to expand any record collection that’s light on the music of São Tomé and...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2022
DJ Lubi Jovanovic presents Salsa Funk Experience
Here’s yet another addition to Nascente’s Funk Experience series – Kid Loco’s French Funk Experience has been released simultaneously –...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell 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
Origine Orients
Abaji says of the hybrid oud–guitar he built and played on his new album Origine Orients that it is his...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2010
