Reviews
Nani
Nani is the debut album from Finnish folk musician and researcher Emmi Kujanpää. An avid enthusiast of Finnish and Bulgarian...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2020
Dialogues IV
The story of this record is so compelling that it comes as a relief that the content is equal to...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2020
MandolinMan Plays Bossa Nova
As their name might suggest, the Belgian quartet MandolinMan are all mandolin players. Their first album, Old Tunes, Dusted Down,...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: May/2020
Buenos Hermanos
There was the Buena Vista Social Club, of course. And then there was Ibrahim Ferrer, its unofficial frontman. Born at...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2020
Oud Classics from Armenia, the Balkans & Middle East
If you are someone who is slightly unsure about Middle Eastern music but would like to dip your toe into...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: May/2020
What's Not Enough About That?
This third album shows how Vula Viel have very quickly become a band whose new releases you breathlessly await and...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: May/2020
Zam Groove: Music from Zambia
A short LP release of seven tracks taken from the excellent SWP box sets Luangwa to Livingstone (see previous) and...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020
The Blue Book of Storyville
Don Vappie is one of the world's preeminent banjoists and an out and proud New Orleans Creole (of French and...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2020
Wild Wild East
Born in New York in 1975 to Punjabi immigrants, Jain has become a leading figure in North America's burgeoning Asian...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020
Is That So?
John McLaughlin, Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain
John McLaughlin sparked a paradigm shift in the East-West fusion genre with his 1970s group Shakti. He is seeking another...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2020
