Reviews
Orchestre Massako
The latest release in Analog Africa’s Limited Dance Edition series throws the spotlight on Gabon’s Orchestre Massako, founded by Jean-Christian...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2022
Bak Lås Og Slå
From thieves to murderers this is a collection of songs about outcasts of Norwegian society in the 19th century. With...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: August/September/2022
The Lions We Are
Dantchev:Domain | DANTCHEV:DOMAIN
Atmospheric and cinematic, The Lions We Are is a journey across spaces and sensations. Permeated by a playful experimentalism, this...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: August/September/2022
Slow Dance, Square Dance, Barn Dance
Slow Dance, Square Dance, Barn Dance delivers straight up traditional bluegrass balladry and honky-tonk crooning with authentic aplomb. Canadian-based, The...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/September/2022
Mỹ Lai
Kronos Quartet, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, Rinde Eckert
The Apocalypse Now image on the album cover and the title Mỹ Lai, the name of a terrible massacre of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2022
From a Heritage Tree
Like so many recent releases, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer Daniel Sherrill’s From a Heritage Tree owes its existence, at least...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/September/2022
White Power Outage Vol 2
The revolution will not be televised, nor will it be terribly organised if the Free Radicals are in charge. Active...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: August/September/2022
Razem
In Polish razem means ‘together’ and this album is a meeting of two bands: Babra from Hungary and Megitza (aka...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2022
Kanéfonyo
Kora player, percussionist, singer, composer, griot and a half-brother of Seckou Keita, Susso has recorded with Norway’s Kristin Asbjornsen Trio,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2022
Houtekiet
When they formed in 2011, MANdolinMAN, a Belgian mandolin quartet, proposed new arrangements of the traditional Flemish repertoire, based on...
Reviewed by Anne Ge in issue: August/September/2022
