Reviews
Draft
Despite growing up in the small town of Anogia on the island of Crete, also home to such famous Greek...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: May/2021
This Ain’t No Mouse Music!
This double-CD box set is the soundtrack to a feature-length documentary, This Ain’t No Mouse Music!, documenting how Chris Strachwitz,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2015
Salhi
Imed Alibi, Mounir Troudi & Michel Marre
Imed Alibi is a France-based Tunisian percussionist who likes to take risks. His 2015 debut, Safar, saw him playing alongside...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2018
At Kriol Junction
It’s been five years since this multi¬cultural collective’s compelling and original debut album More Big Musik from Over There! But...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: June/2014
Portu in Core
Followers of Corsican supergroup I Muvrini (The Mountain Sheep) will know the formula: voices steeped in tradition; an ensemble that's...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: April/2020
Kathryn Tickell & The Side
The brilliant Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell has worked with classical musicians before, composing for the Nash Ensemble, percussionist Joanna MacGregor...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Event Horizon
This unique album opens at a rhythmic canter, with pulsating guitar work melded with uplifting synths to create an instrumental...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2018
Punky Halal
It's been 14 years since French Maghreb-influenced band Les Boukakes first started rocking not just the casbahs but the world...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2013
Just My Soul
This is the fourth album by Erik Aliana, the first two having been in the Bikutsi and Makossa styles of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2017
Hard Ground
The Rachel Hamer Band met on the folk degree course at Newcastle University. They play with gusto and confidence and...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2017
