Reviews
Maslak Halay1
The whole sound of Ayyuka is summed up in the title of their fifth album; halay, aficionados of Turkish and...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Acoustic
Oumou Sangaré's label have certainly got some mileage out of her brilliant 2017 album, Mogoya. It was followed a year...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Shadows on the Moon
O sister, where art thou? Not necessarily anywhere near the Appalachians, it seems. Midnight Skyracer's 2018 debut Fire proved that...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
As Catedrais Silenciadas
Xabier Díaz & Adufeiras de Salitre
‘Illas de Sal’, the final track of As Catedrais Silenciadas, was built around one of the countless field recordings that...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Songs of Hard Times: Up, Over and Through
Smart work from the good folk who run the Alan Lomax Archives – from a catalogue of sound recordings spanning...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Besh o droM20
The first track of Besh o droM's new album, ‘Atom Csocsek’, kicks off with a low-slung bassline coupled with rousing...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Gipsy Dance
The late Macedonian singer Esma Redžepova was celebrated as the ‘Queen of the Gypsies’ and, across a remarkable career, helped...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Head Above the Water
This is the Galway singer's third album, recorded at the analog Green Door studio in Glasgow with Alasdair Roberts co-producing...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Simurg
Compro Oro with Murat Ertel & Esma Ertel
Simurg is the third album from Belgian psychedelic collective Compro Oro. The album is a collaboration between the group and...
Reviewed by Marek Tymków in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Wabi Sabi
Sometimes an album title immediately makes you want to return it, unheard. Such is the case with the nonsensically titled...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
