Reviews
Áshira
Gamelan Salukat x Jan Kadereit
There’s something transcendental about this time-bending collaboration between Copenhagen-based composer Jan Kadereit and Balinese gamelan orchestra Salukat. For those unfamiliar...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/2025
Ordo Virtutum: Jeff Bird Plays Hildegard von Bingen, Volume Two
Jeff Bird is a musical explorer with a keen interest in the ancient music of German mystic Hildegard of Bingen,...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: September/2025
Electro Baghdad
Projects that fuse electronic and traditional music risk doing neither genre justice if they don’t get the basics – songwriting...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: September/2025
Home
Here’s an interesting oddity. A group of African musicians sing in a makeshift studio on the banks of Lake Malawi,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022
Weird and Wonderful Tales
French multi-instrumentalists Maria Laurent and Gautier Degandt specialise in hard-core acoustic folk, given a rock attitude, although still operating within...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2019
Visions
A Harvard student of Latin American studies and ethnomusicology, Kavita Shah has released an album on which the influence of...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Le Mystère des Chants Mayas
We have no idea what the more musically minded Mayans got up to during their human sacrifices, ball-court tournaments, weddings...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2015
Esfahan
Faraz Entessari & Fabio Tricomi
This new album of Iranian classical music features Faraz Entessari on tar (long-necked lute), accompanied by Fabio Tricomi on various...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2013
Kanamalu
Welcome to a new music label, bravely launching with a brace of albums by Portuguese-based artists, including this fine outing....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Cumbia! Bestial
This thrilling compilation offers a truly cross-continental perspective, bringing together cutting-edge remixes of cumbia by DJs from Bogotá, Mexico and...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: October/2011
