Reviews
RELAY, Vol 1
There are good reasons to buy this album, via Bandcamp, at the price of your choosing, because all proceeds are...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
4
The product of a decade of musical research and cross-continental collaboration, 4 is the fruit of Leni Stern's forays into...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Afropentatonism
Alhousseini Anivolla & Girum Mezmur
With five notes per octave, the pentatonic scale is considered the oldest scale in the world. Originating in ancient Mesopotamia...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Siphr
Siphr (Zero) is the first studio album by the Lebanese-American musician, artist and educator Naima Shalhoub. With playing and writing...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Zithers
Andrew Cronshaw's presence as a player, writer and critic has been a significant part of the folk and world music...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Erzulie
Yilian Cañizares’ credentials are impeccable: born in Havana, she mastered violin in Caracas’ El Sistema programme, debuted dashingly at the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Right of Passage
Franco-American guitar and banjo player Cory Seznec and Senegalese guitarist-turned-kora player Amadou Diagne first met while busking on the streets...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Liga Latina
Liga Latina have been described as ‘a European supergroup.’ Well, they're a quintet of Scandinavian musicians steeped in Latin and...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
