Reviews

Iorram

Aidan O’Rourke

Iorram (Boat Song) begins with electro-washes of ambient sound, swooping back and forth, as if in the process of self...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2021

Czary i Czarty

Wicher

With last issue’s Devil’s Fiddle album, the recent Daj Ognia disc with its dance-of-death track and this Wicher release, maybe...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2021

River of Happy Souls

Bapi Das Baul

Bapi Das Baul is son of Purna Das Baul and grandson of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who became friendly with...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2021

Char Taal and a Raga Rainbow

Rakkatak

These days North India is far from the only place you can find examples of the Hindustani music associated with...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2021

Wolo So

Balimaya Project

Five years in the making, this debut album by the Balimaya Project (balimaya meaning ‘Essence of Kinship’ in the Maninka...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: October/2021

Haar

HAV

This second album from Scottish ambient folk trio HAV is as ethereal and elusive as the coastal environment it is...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2021

Assolist

Efruze

These sentimental tracks come from the golden, pre-Arabesk, age of Turkish gazinos, venues where mixed crowds would come, eat and...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: October/2021

Cissoko Heritage

Maher Cissoko

Born in the Casamance region of southern Senegal, Maher Cissoko’s claim to be the 73rd generation of a griot family...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2021

Trujillo, Perú 1971-1974

Manzanita y Su Conjunto

Somewhere along the way cumbia has become the term used to describe Latin America’s golden age of tropical, danceable music,...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2021

Ástor 2020, La Historia Continúa

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This year marks 100 years since Astor Piazzolla’s birth in Mar del Plata, Argentina. This album is a timely homage...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2021