While reggae music has long had a reverent fanbase in Japan, the country’s musicians have generally shied away from attempting...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: November/2023
A curio and a labour of love, Fiddles Vol 1 is a compilation in the intriguingly-named Secret Museum of Mankind...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: November/2023
Drawn from several generations of unaccompanied traditional singers, these are freshly recorded and collected, aside from Rosie Stewart’s ‘Jug of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2023
’Isle Of The Eagle’ is a song from Achill, the largest of the isles off Ireland’s west coast, written by...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2023
Although he now lives in the Istanbul district of Gazi Mahallesi, an area popular with Alevi Kurds, Kiği is the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2023
Ramy Essam is known for his appearances on Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, regularly in front of...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: November/2023
Basically a trio, the self-proclaimed ‘ragtag collective’ of maya ongaku is based in the Ace General Store on their local...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: November/2023
The prolific Mehmet Polat presents another album of Turkish ud jazz with inflections of other traditions. Similar to his previous...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2023
OKI is the tonkori-wielding bard famed for bringing the endangered music of the Ainu people of Hokkaido, one of Japan’s...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2023
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