Reviews
Fall in Mountains
What's striking about this album is how different it is from any other music currently coming out of Poland. It's...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2014
Comorian: We Are an Island, but We’re Not Alone
This is an oddball of an album. Produced by Ian Brennan – of Tinariwen fame – this release is as...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2021
Deeper in the Well
Eric Bibb: son of Leon Bibb, a fixture in the folk revival scene of the 1960s; nephew of John Lewis,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2012
Yallah Mickey Mouse
Cyril Yeterian (better known as the accordion playing frontman for Cajun blues band Mama Rosin) and fellow Genevan avant-garde experimentalist...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: January/2021
Tzadik TZ8115
Boris Malkovsky Time Petah-Tiqva
Boris Malkovsky is a Russian-trained Israeli master of the bayan (diatonic button accordion) and from the very first bars of...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Finesse
Evan Christopher’s Django à la Créole
Evan Christopher is one of the US’s foremost young jazz musicians. Resident in New Orleans, he has worked with musicians...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2010
Siti of Unguja: Romance Revolution on Zanzibar
Siti Muharam is the greatgranddaughter of Siti Binti Saad, the woman who turned taarab from the inaccessible music of the...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2020
Tebourba
Fanfara Station may sound like the name of one of the Balkan brass bands they so clearly admire, but in...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2018
Mo Ashibi Magic: Live in Tokyo 1999
Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman
Okinawan singer, guitarist and sanshin player Takashi Hirayasu and world music nomad Bob Brozman came together in 1999 to record...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
