Reviews
Gula Gula
Fragile, urgent and strong, Gula Gula reveals itself within the first 20 seconds of the title-track as one of the...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2024
Vrindavan – 1982
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar | Zia Mohiuddin Dagar & Pandit Taranath
Presented as a double LP and in digital form this is an outstanding, although previously unheard, recording of the rudra...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2024
Afro Jazz Folk Collection Vol 2
Three years ago, Mieruba – a rarity among crate-digging enterprises in that the label is actually based in West Africa...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2024
Dama Bëgga Ñibi (I Want to Go Home)
In the spring of 2020, Bakane Seck, the Senegalese percussionist and founder of Dakar’s Jeri Jeri Band, found himself stranded...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2024
Afrika Muye Muye!: Tanzanian Rumba and Muziki Wa Dansi (1968-1970)
Put together by music historian and archivist Rob Allingham with research and translation help from Werner Graebner, Afrika Muye Muye!...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2024
American Patchwork Quartet
The clue is in the name. This terrific quartet led by visionary roots guitarist/vocalist/arranger Clay Ross celebrate America’s Indigenous folk...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2024
The Colour of Amber
Following his terrific Nick Hart Sings… series, award-winning folk singer, musician and steward of English folk song Hart returns in...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2024
Liminal Silence
Sunny Kim, Vardan Ovsepian & Ben Monder
Now here’s an album that defies easy categorisation, in which Sunny Kim, a Korean-born singer, improviser and composer joins forces...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2024
Terry Riley in C Irish
1960s’ minimalist guru Terry Riley’s quixotic masterpiece ‘In C’ filtered through the prism of Irish traditional music? On paper it...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2024
