Reviews
A Chant About the Beauty of the Moon at Night: Hawaiian Steel Guitar Masters 1913-1921
With Spanish guitars having been well established in the Hawaiian islands since the mid-1800s, local 16-year-old guitarist Joseph Kekuku is...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2022
Mista Savona Presents Havana Meets Kingston Part 2
Five years after stars young and old assembled under the aegis of Australian dancehall producer Jake Dominic ‘Mista’ Savona for...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2022
Gnawa Electric Laune II
As you might guess, this album is the sequel to the first collaboration between Moroccan Gnawa musician Harnoune and German...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2022
African Journey
Glenn Keiles is an established composer and producer who first opened a studio in Brixton, London in 1982, spending the...
Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: October/2022
Ritual
For her sixth album. Spanish performer, composer and music producer Ana Alcaide offers what she describes as a ‘hymn to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2022
Overheard
Birdsong features on a range of recent folk-inflected albums – our avian friends are the exotic new back-ups (although solo...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2022
Shruti Dances
A project three years in the making, Shruti Dances is the debut collaborative release from star Indian percussionist Sarathy Korwar...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: October/2022
Throisma
This is the second solo album from Monsieur Doumani’s Antonis Antoniou, and like the previous Kkismettin it’s a corker. It...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2022
Couteau / Haute Forme
Super Parquet command the confluence of Auvergnat folk, art and club music, creating their own unique sound flow. This follow-up...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2022
Ver Tente
The fourth album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Maria Rita Stumpf, Ver Tente, brings together her four decades of musical output. After...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: October/2022
