The Eva Quartet are undoubtedly the finest current exponents of small group vocal music by Bulgarian composers and arrangers, rooted...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Jamaican toasting legend Big Youth collaborates here with travelling French producers Brain Damage and Sam Clayton Jr in a heady...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
For this project, Alasdair Roberts was invited by fiddler Hans Kjorstad to Oslo to reinterpret songs from Roberts’ back catalogue...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
“It’s great to be at a point where it’s the music that’s in focus and not where it comes from.”...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman
Okinawan singer, guitarist and sanshin player Takashi Hirayasu and world music nomad Bob Brozman came together in 1999 to record...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
This is an innovative recording from a Canadian husband-and-wife duo who quirkily insist on writing their name in lower case....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
It took the Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble until their fifth album and tenth year to go eponymous. It takes time to know...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp
Is this title an exercise in assured bravado and chutzpah for this Geneva-based band’s fifth album, or is it a...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Cezary Duchnowski & Radical Polish Ansambl
The idea of fiddlers selling their soul to the devil for special musical gifts or being linked to the supernatural...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
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