Reviews
Beyond the Blue
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
The Old Fabled River
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
Slåttesong
“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
Mo Ashibi Magic: Live in Tokyo 1999
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
Timeline
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
Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble
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
We’re OK. But We’re Lost Anyway
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
Devil’s Fiddle
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
‘Sai-thaiñ ki Sur
The connection between Wales and the Khasi Hills of north-east India may not be immediately obvious, but it’s the key...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Na Zala Zala
Rey Sapienz & The Congo Techno Ensemble
This is the debut album from Rey Sapienz, who grew up surrounded by the tragedy of the second Congo War...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
