Reviews
Dreamland
Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys
Dreamland, the fourth album by the Prince Edward Island quartet Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys, is a welcome entry...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2019
Boring & Weird Historical Music
As hard to categorise as it is to stop listening to, Boring & Weird Historical Music is a genre-defying aural...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2020
Kora Fo
Born into a legendary griot family in Casamance, Senegal, for the past decade Maher Cissoko has been resident in Sweden,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2017
Riitti
This debut album from Finnish duo, Liisa Haapanen (cello, voice, percussion) and Janne Ojajärvi (harmonica, jaw harp, flute, voice and...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: June/2022
L’Ombre de la Bête
François Robin & Mathias Delplanque
François Robin has been exploring electro-acoustic sounds for nearly 15 years. While his is a multi-instrumentalist, his instrument of choice...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: October/2022
We be All Africans
Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids
African-American jazz musicians were undoubtedly the pioneers of what's become known as world music. In the 1950s, Dizzy Gillespie's music...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2016
The World of Traditional Music
Alongside Nonesuch's Explorer series, Ocora is perhaps the most important mother lode of authentic 20th-century field recordings of world music....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2018
Back to Sustain
Like a light hike on an easy trail on a sunny spring afternoon, The Pine Hearts' fourth studio album doesn't...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020
Coup of Gods
Yet again risking imprisonment in his native Iran for releasing this album, Mehdi Rajabian’s latest effort showcases Persian tonalities, a...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2022
Sixth Sense
The Taal Tantra Experience with Tanmoy Bose
This is Taal Tantra’s second album, in which Indian and German musicians combine raga and jazz, fusing European and Indian...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
