Reviews
Hanggai Big Band Brass 2019
Hanggai have been performing interpretations of traditional music from both Inner Mongolia in China (where they hail from) and the...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: December/2019
The Art of the Cheolhyeongeum Sanjo
Sanjo is a popular Korean folk-art genre that builds as a sequence of movements, beginning slow and emotional, gradually increasing...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2016
El Maravilloso Mundo de Abelardo Carbonó
How many roots can a musician tie up in his signature sound? According to this album’s extensive liner notes, the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2014
Arise
Jamaican vocal trio The Abyssinians became legends with their seminal 1976 album Satta Massagana, which made an Afrocentric statement via...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2016
Gunfan Yellem!
‘East meets West’ is a common theme within world music fusions, but it's rare to hear one like this: Damakase's...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2017
Ukronia
This is an album rich in scholarship and serious in intent. Antique songs from Upper Brittany are sung in the...
Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: July/2013
Ormenion
I loved this disc. It brings to the fore the lively musical traditions that straddle the border of northern Greece,...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2020
Where The Rivers Meet
Joik and jazz are two words that describe Where The Rivers Meet comes from. While both styles resemble each other...
Reviewed by Elisavet Sotiriadou in issue: June/2010
Two Universes
Feufollet started out as a Cajun children's band before maturing into one of the most exciting young bands in the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2015
Lam Phloen Grade A Guy
Angkanang Kunchai | Sonthaya Kalasin | Various Artists
Composer, producer and savvy businessman Doi Inthanon (named after Thailand's tallest mountain) has created a huge catalogue of songs and...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
