Reviews
Pipa Potluck
The ‘potluck’ in the title of this album, a collaborative project led by Chinese pipa virtuoso Gao Hong, refers to...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Tülay German & François Rabbath
Tülay German & François Rabbath
Vocalist Tülay German cut her teeth as a jazz singer in Istanbul nightclubs in the early 60s before bursting onto...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021
Brave Land
Winnipeg native Raine Hamilton’s third album is an enthusiastic fusion of chamber string music and fairly typical folk singer-songwriter structures....
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: March/2022
Aspaklaria
Mordechai Beck & the Aspaklaria Group
The word aspaklaria has contrasting definitions in the Jewish Talmud: one rabbi defines it as a mirror, while another claims...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: November/2018
Blodeugerdd – Song of the Flowers
Remember Mary Hopkin? ‘Those Were the Days’ sold millions in the late 60s, but then she walked away from pop...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2010
Ilanga (The Sun)
Afrika Mamas' striking new album connects listeners to the roots of Zulu culture. The six female singers who make up...
Reviewed by Franki Clemens in issue: June/2021
Outshine the Sun
You won’t find any clear songwriting credits on this innovatively packaged release. But what you will find in the liner...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2013
Havana Classic
One day someone should write a feature on music tourism – me perhaps! By this, I mean groups of Brits...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2019
Wouty
On first listen this sounds like a very pleasant, semi-acoustic, low-key, album of relaxed, modern Senegalese music. After several plays,...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Riva
Astrid Kuljanic Transatlantic Exploration Company
Not content with her training as a chemical engineer, Croatian Astrid Kuljanic decided after college to follow her first passion:...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2018
