Reviews
Carry Fire
The follow-up to 2014's Lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar is hardly a world music album in any conventional sense. But...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
Beches Indian Brew
As a more globalised world emerged in the 1960s and 70s, the Swedish jazz drummer Bengt Berger (aka Beche) kept...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
Invisible Faces
Bringing together musicians from Turkey, Serbia and the Czech Republic, bassist Tomáš Liška here draws upon a shared musical language...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
Imaginary Archives Vol 1: Ritual Music from Nameless Civilisations
Swedish innovator Juhani Silvola is set to release another three albums on his Eighth Nerve label after this – one...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
Noir et Blanc
Recorded in 1983 by the composer Hector Zazou in collaboration with French synth experimentalists Guillaume Loizillon and Claude Micheli (aka...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
Babel Fish
The Dutch band Amariszi have been playing Balkan-inspired pop music for the past decade and Babel Fish is their third...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
Initiatrix
Heloise Pilkington's Halloween-released Initiatrix is an original and thoughtfully constructed piece of work. A collection of original songs and chants...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
Will You?
Shujaat Husain Khan, Kevin Hays, Katayoun Goudarzi, Tim Ries & Dibyarka Chatterjee
Perhaps there is something about the texts of the great Persian-language poet Rumi that chime with the times we are...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
Waters Wide
Somewhat of a supergroup, Koral Society comprises Caroline Trettine on guitar and lead vocals, Mosi Conde on kora and Alison...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
