Reviews
Banjophony
The poor old banjo has long been the butt of jokes – even banjo maestro Ron Block himself has been...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
In Transition
This is a very welcome return by the Thessaloniki-based group Loxandra. This recording has many of the features that made...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
Orange Sunshine
There is a good reason why the initial physical release of Susso Seki Singh's Orange Sunshine is vinyl only. The...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
A Gypsy Journey Part II: El Refugio
Mexico City-born El Javi humbly styles himself ‘The King of Rock Flamenco.’ The follow-up to an earlier EP called The...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
Itai Kriss & Telavana
The flautist Itai Kriss grew up in Israel, where he absorbed an array of musical traditions from Morocco to the...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
Raï is not Dead
Fanfaraï Big Band have been known as just Fanfaraï since their inception in 2005, but have now renamed owing to...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Painted Sands
You can almost taste the spices and smell the sweat of the Silk Road, the kicked-up dirt from millions of...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Sirocco
On the remix of ‘Andalucia’ that concludes this rewarding album, intermittent shots of percussion unsettle the underlying rumba and flamenco...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Topspin
Cardboard Fox's music is striking for its lightness – a lightness of touch, that is, not of content. In this...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Avant Folk
Frode Haltli is a classically trained Norwegian accordionist, accustomed to working in both folk and avant-garde music. On his latest...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
