Reviews
Afro Jazz Folk Collection Vol 2
Three years ago, Mieruba – a rarity among crate-digging enterprises in that the label is actually based in West Africa...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2024
Dama Bëgga Ñibi (I Want to Go Home)
In the spring of 2020, Bakane Seck, the Senegalese percussionist and founder of Dakar’s Jeri Jeri Band, found himself stranded...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2024
Afrika Muye Muye!: Tanzanian Rumba and Muziki Wa Dansi (1968-1970)
Put together by music historian and archivist Rob Allingham with research and translation help from Werner Graebner, Afrika Muye Muye!...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2024
American Patchwork Quartet
The clue is in the name. This terrific quartet led by visionary roots guitarist/vocalist/arranger Clay Ross celebrate America’s Indigenous folk...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2024
The Colour of Amber
Following his terrific Nick Hart Sings… series, award-winning folk singer, musician and steward of English folk song Hart returns in...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2024
Liminal Silence
Sunny Kim, Vardan Ovsepian & Ben Monder
Now here’s an album that defies easy categorisation, in which Sunny Kim, a Korean-born singer, improviser and composer joins forces...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2024
Terry Riley in C Irish
1960s’ minimalist guru Terry Riley’s quixotic masterpiece ‘In C’ filtered through the prism of Irish traditional music? On paper it...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2024
Mirror City
Two instruments evoke Korea like no others: the daegeum bamboo flute (and its smaller equivalent, the sogeum) and the ajaeng...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2024
Away Beyond the Fret
East Anglian husband and wife duo Lucy and Jon Hart have coincided their third album with the birth of their...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: March/2024
