Reviews

ShadowLines

FLUX

Those who know the work of British composer, producer and musician Shammi Pithia will know to expect a dreamy, cinematic...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

Meridian 68

Dagadana

We are getting used to wild and wonderful global collaborations. But this must still be a first; a Polish-Ukrainian band...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Celebrating Emperor Tewodros II

Gabriella Ghermandi

Anyone familiar with Francis Falceto's marvellous Éthiopiques series will have a good idea of what to expect from this album...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Lullaby for Naila

London Lucumi Choir

How right-on do you like your music? The London Lucumi Choir is a community choir that doesn’t select through auditions....

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Qasida

Rosario ‘La Tremendita’ & Mohammad Motamedi

This live CD bears witness to the meeting of Iranian classical singer Mohammad Motamedi and flamenco singer-songwriter Rosario ‘La Tremendita’...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Remembrance

Arvvas

Imagine Tom Waits heading north and living for a while with Sámi musicians in Norway. Steinar Raknes has a voice...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra

Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra

In 2014 Tony Allen visited Haiti to perform with local musicians at a concert in Port-Au-Prince's main square. He was...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Al Viento

Pedro Soler & Gaspar Claus

Even without the different surnames, you’d be forgiven for not realising that Pedro Soler and Gaspar Claus are father and...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Mirrors

Mala

Though he will perhaps always be best known for his role in instigating the dubstep movement – through his work...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Sandaraa

Sandaraa

Sandaraa are a musical manifesto defying ethnic, linguistic and national borders and tracing a shared human experience through their ‘trans-Eurasian’...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016