Reviews

From Blues to Rembetika

Mark T

Mark T is a British blues musician and, listening to the several live tunes included on From Blues to Rembetika,...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Ariwo

Ariwo

Ariwo are an intriguing prospect. The four-piece are based in London, but they meld the highly percussive sounds of Afro-Cuban...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Escapology

Duende Indian Collective

As a bansuri (flute) rises from a bed of flamenco guitar on album opener ‘Escapology’, any listeners who last heard...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Revolutionary Birds

Wassim Halal, Erwan Keravec, Mounir Troudi

Revolutionary Birds is a striking new collaboration between Tunisian jazz and Sufi singer Mounir Troudi, Breton bagpiper Erwan Keravec, and...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Makindu

Makindu

Formed by tabla player Randeep Kaur Bilkhu and clarinettist Timothy Wall, Makindu are named after a town in Kenya where...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Laissez Passer

TootArd

TootArd have finally released their debut album, Laissez Passer, seven years after forming the band. Although the members of TootArd...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Tapestry

Navá

There are more connections between the musical traditions of Persia and Ireland than one might think at first. These four...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Blue Maqams

Anouar Brahem

This is a gently exquisite album, in which the finest and most innovative oud (lute) player and composer in Tunisia...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Drifters & Vagabonds

Black Market Tune

With one foot in Scotland, the other in Austria and a few other limbs in Sweden and Vienna, Black Market...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Stone Horse

Indotranceltic

Former Killing Joke bassist Youth launches his new global beats label Suriya Recordings in fine style with Indotranceltic's satisfyingly uncategorisable...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018