This is a pair of musicians steeped in the folk music and traditions of the south-west – Becki Driscoll comes...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2014
Born into a family of musicians and storytellers on Ghana's Atlantic coast, Okaidja Afroso learned to sing seafaring songs as...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2022
Zeitkratzer, Svetlana Spajic, Dragana Tomic & Obrad Milic
This extraordinary, uncompromising and intense collaboration between Berlin-based hyper-contemporary ensemble Zeitkratzer and a few singers specialising in traditional Serbian-language folklore...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: November/2018
You can understand the youngest of the three Joubran brothers wanting to branch out and record his own album. Le...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2014
iyatraQuartet fuse Western with Indian classical and Arabic traditions, with the four players - violinist Alice Barron, who studied Karnatic...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020
Peruvian percussionist Manongo Mujica has always been partial to experimentation, as was clear in his work with the influential jazz...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: August/September/2022
An unlikely sonic collision, Medicine Man Orchestra brings together the divergent universes of electronic sound design (Alissa Syllah), West African...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: March/2021
Originally from the Gambia, but resident in London since 2002, Jally Kebba Susso is a kora player but he's not...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Bob Wills, the arguable progenitor of Western Swing, made effective use of three fiddlers (Wills himself being one of them,...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
With lyrics in Portuguese and perfect pronunciation you could be forgiven for thinking A Bossa Eletrica are from Brazil. In...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2012
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