Reviews
Be Here Whenever
Danielle de Gruttola, Henry Kaiser, Benedicte Maurseth & Stein Urheim
After the plaintively beautiful but solitary sound of Benedicte Maurseth’s self-titled solo album (reviewed in the November 2019 issue, #152),...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Mande Guitar: African Guitar Series, Vol 1
This first release on a new label launched by Banning Eyre, presenter of the Afropop Worldwide radio show and all-round...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Couleur
Three years after her masterpiece, Miziki, Ivorian singer Dobet Gnahoré has now taken up the challenge to produce another highly...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
The Rich are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives
The eighth album by British-Trinidadian Renaissance man Anthony Joseph takes its title from a line by legendary Trinidadian theorist CLR...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know
Full disclosure: your reviewer fully anticipated not raving about this album. While appreciating Rising Appalachia’s raison dêtre, my ears have...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Dance
Since her debut as a leader in 1986, the Munich-born New Yorker has recorded a further 23 albums, of which...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
The Voices and Bridges
The number of recording locations worldwide for this album is extraordinary, but perhaps that was the only way to create...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Minka
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
