Reviews
A Handful of Sky
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
Jaku Mumor (Ancestral Spirit)
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
Serbian War Songs
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
Borders Behind
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
Break the Dawn
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
Del Cuarto Rojo: Homenaje Sonoro Escuchando la Pintura de Rafael Hastings
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
Medicine Man Orchestra
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
Banjul-London
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
Timeless
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
Do Norte
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
