Reviews
Stories of Stonia
Singer Mari Kalkun is a native speaker of Võro, an endangered South Estonian language, not easy even for speakers of...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: August/September/2023
Hamt Zamin Hümüs
The morin khuur or two-stringed horsehead fiddle is pretty much the only traditional Mongolian instrument on Hamt Zamin Hümüs. NaraBara...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: August/September/2023
Sonero de Oriente
Arturo Jorge y Su Cuarteto Tradición
If you’re a fan of Buena Vista Social Club, whose eponymous 1997 album was a global sensation, you’ll warm to...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: October/2023
Traverse
Laura Risk, Nicholas Williams & Rachel Aucoin
Californian Laura Risk now resides in Montreal and has been playing Québécois fiddle for decades. Traverse is her first solo...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: October/2023
The Beautiful Road
Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly
Kíla frontman Rónán Ó Snodaigh and fellow musician and film-maker Myles O’Reilly's first outing together on disc, 2021's Tá Go...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2023
As Much as It Takes
This is the second album in 2023 released by Palestinian composer and piano virtuoso Faraj Suleiman. Yet, whereas Upright Biano...
Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: October/2023
Nos Habet Caramel
Cairo-based DJ, producer and multidisciplinary artist Fajr Soliman mixes electro-pop and mahraganat (a blend of Egyptian folk and shaabi music,...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2023
Echoes from a Faded Past
What do you get when you cross a Swedish guitarist, a Danish cellist and composer, a Jordanian singer, oud player...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2023
amaXesha
The story of Southern Africa's ‘contemporary urban folk’ music can be told in five acts: Madala Kunene, Buddy Masango, Vusi...
Reviewed by Bongani Madondo in issue: June/2023
