Reviews
Otherlands:ONE
American fiddler Casey Driessen spent nine months travelling the world, meeting, listening and playing with local musicians until COVID-19 eventually...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2021
The Secret Museum of Mankind – Guitars Vol 1: Prologue to Modern Styles
Curated by 78rpm record collector Pat Conte, The Secret Museum of Mankind series from Jalopy Records returns with the first...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2021
Hankyō
Better known for his playing of the Irish flute and whistle in America, Hanz Araki is in fact also a...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: June/2021
Ansema We Stand
You know you can trust a double bassist whose mentors have included the Italian jazz bassist Giovanni Tommaso and the...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2021
Cartografado
It is telling that the very first seconds in Cartografado are evocative not of fado, but of samba and choro....
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2021
A Cassowary Apart
Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers
The world of ambient banjo is a small one. This was the joke that brought together two participants in the...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2021
The Missing Star
Carli Jefferson and Clair Le Couteur, aka Lunatrakrors, are an intriguing duo. Based in Margate, they are exponents of what...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2021
Del Canto Gitano: Music of Ancient Andalusia
The Moorish-occupied Iberian Peninsula, usually referred to as Al-Andalus, is an endless source of fascination. It was a period of...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2021
Cosmologies
The village of Rääkkylä in Finnish Karelia has an important place in Finland's musical history as the birthplace, nearly 40...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2021
M'berra
In 2018 the Italian producer Khalab – aka Raffaele Costantino – released the wildly acclaimed Black Noise 2084, an album...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2021
