Reviews
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
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
