Reviews
A Delicate Game
Comprising singer Claire Hastings, pianist Tina Jordan Rees, fiddler Gráinne Brady and Heather Downie on clarsach (harp), Top Floor Taivers’...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2017
Legend of the Bulgarian Clarinet
This wonderful selection, devoted to clarinettist Georgi Koev (born 1910), has been recovered by Canadian Yves Moreau from the tape...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2016
Rio de Janeiro
If too much sun leads to a prematurely furrowed brow, no-one's told Joyce: it's difficult to think of another sexagenarian...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Apr/May/2012
Daughter of the Spring
Reviewing Mor Karbasi's debut CD, it was tempting to compare her with Yasmin Levy, a fellow Jerusalemborn Sephardic singer. It...
Reviewed by Dennis Marks in issue: June/2011
Yumi Kagura
Kagura is an ancient form of Japanese Shinto sacred music and dance, which accompanies the ritual chanting of mythological tales....
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Stepping It Out Again!
Taken from recordings made by song collector and field-recorder John Howson between 1975 and 2000, this set of 24 songs...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2012
Freedom of Movement
A mere 40 seconds into this Brazilian/English artist's debut solo album and you'll be won over. That first track, ‘Capoeira...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: July/2017
Erzulie
Yilian Cañizares’ credentials are impeccable: born in Havana, she mastered violin in Caracas’ El Sistema programme, debuted dashingly at the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
The Best of the Black President 2
This is consistently great music: a sublime mix of jazz, funk and a dreamy groove. Fela Kuti created a whole...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: Apr/May/2013
