Reviews
Dreams of Sleep and Wakes of Sound
Laraaji, Merz & Shahzad Ismaily
New Age zither master Laraaji began his career busking in the parks of New York, where he was ‘discovered’ by...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
The Rough Guide to World Music For Children
The liner notes of this compilation of 18 tracks from World Music Network's excellent back catalogue claim that youthful listeners...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Exil-Exile
Kyriakos Kalaitzidis & En Chordais
I've had time for composer and oud player Kyriakos Kalaitzidis since I first encountered his ensemble/record label En Chordais in...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Pomegranate
Blending Western classical stylistics and compositional techniques with tunes and sonorities from a mainly Mediterranean and Eastern European catchment, Kosmos...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
The People
The People is the first album from MA Rouf, the latest band of Iranian-Finnish composer and musician Marouf Majidi. Majidi...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Maghera Pony
This disc is a bit of an oddity, but is none the worse for it. Matthew Noone is an Australian-born...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
The Lost Words: Spell Songs
Spell Songs made its stage debut earlier this year, its music sprung from the ‘spell songs’ of nature writer Robert...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Atlantic Oscillations
It often seems Will Holland takes delight in confounding his audience. Just take his last three albums as Quantic: a...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Alter Ethno
Bulgarian fusion band Oratnitza are of a generation that grew up not only familiar with local folk music, but who...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
To the Mother of Gods
Anatolian Weapons & Seirios Savvaidis
Anatolian Weapons is a guise of DJ electronicist Aggelos Baltas, and Seirios Savvaidis is a singer-songwriter who is much younger...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
