Reviews
Saba Sounds
Guo Gan, Zoumana Tereta, Richard Bourreau
Here's a trio bringing bowed instruments from different lands. Guo Gan unwraps his erhu (a Chinese two-stringed spike fiddle), Zoumana...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2020
Vodou Alé
Chouk Bwa were a revelation upon their debut album, 2015's Se Nou Ki La! (reviewed in #110), a wonderful set...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2020
Future Rust Vol 1
New label Future Rust offers this compilation as an immersion into the subculture of the handpan, commonly called hang. The...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2020
Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton
This wonderful recording of Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton performing in New York in 1962 begins with a short, sweet...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2020
Africa Today
Hailed by Seun Kuti as ‘one of the best things to come out of Lagos,’ the trumpeter and composer Etuk...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020
Black Atlantica Edits
Daniel Haaksman sees himself as somewhat of an auteur when it comes to music from across the globe. The Berlin-based...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2020
Spiders Tango
Kuljit Bhamra & Davide Giovannini (featuring The Villiers Quartet)
Kuljit Bhamra's quicksilver innovative, virtuosic talent is well known, well respected and very much enjoyed by tabla afficionados, percussionists and...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2020
Cuban Jazz Report
Thanks to its state-sponsored conservatoires Cuba has long been a petri dish for maestro-worthy musicality. Cuban Jazz Report is a...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2020
The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers
For this release, four musicians from Maastricht, the Netherlands get together and jam, playing disco, funk and rock filtered through...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: July/2020
Insides Revealed
Insides Revealed, the debut album by Taiwanese indigenous singer Sauljaljui, takes inspiration from her Paiwan tribal roots, and combines traditional...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2020
