Reviews
Cats, Dogs and Ghosts
Kottarashky is Nikola Gruev, a young Bulgarian composer and producer whose 2009 debut album Opa Hey! demonstrated a fluid,...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Apollo You Sixteen
‘Progressive world music’ is how this Belgium-based 40-year-old autodidact describes his latest album, which fuses flamenco with folk, garage, classical...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Big Blue Desert
It is a measure of Mehdi Haddab's intensity and generosity that the oud player conjures an imaginary galaxy in the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Retribution
Tanya Tagaq's music somehow manages to feel completely out of this world, and at the same time deeply plugged into...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
I Dreamed an Island
Piers Faccini created a beautiful duo album, Songs of Time Lost, with cellist Vincent Segal in 2014. But the British...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Africa Express Presents… The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians & Guests
The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians & Guests
The brief summer tour of European festivals that reunited an orchestra of Syrian musicians scattered by civil war and put...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
No Boundaries
Two decades into her career, this is London-based Shapla Salique's third solo album – and her best yet. Her voice...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Bite the Bullet
Of all the retro bands out there, from Tokyo to New York, the nutty London boys of Madness probably did...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Bumblin’ Creed
Padang Food Tigers & Sigbjørn Apeland
Padang Food Tigers operate a craft industry in ambient sound-worlds. Bumblin’ Creed is the third full album to emerge from...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
