Reviews
Songs from Aulejas
This album of 16 a capella songs comes out of a doctoral thesis by Latvian musicologist Asnate Rancâne who studied...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020
Kangaroo Dance
In Congo's Lingala language the term nzong-nzing (or zong-zing) refers to any kind of additional work activity. In musical terms...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2020
Fu Chronicles
This isn't your average Afrobeat album; this one explores not only messages of black power and equality, but also the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2020
Revel and Rhyme
This is a serious-minded collection of original ballads in the English folk song tradition. The opener, ‘World Turned Upside Down’,...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2020
Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia
Bagpipes are not the first instrument that come to mind when you think of Serbian music. And it's a dwindling...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020
Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia
Bagpipes are not the first instrument that come to mind when you think of Serbian music. And it's a dwindling...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020
Vida-Código
For Vida-Código -his fourth album and his third on the Swedish Ajabu! label – Tiganá Santana presents very little of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2020
Sul Filo
Iva Bittová has been pushing the boundaries of East European music for almost 30 years, her voice and violin (and...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2020
Sangeet
Sudeshna Bhattacharya & Tanmoy Bose
Sudeshna Bhattacharya, who has been a lecturer in International Management and also teaches Indian classical music at the Norwegian Academy...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: April/2020
Songs of Forbidden Love
Under the assured leadership of Dessislava Stefanova, The London Bulgarian Choir have become a very impressive outfit. The LBC consist...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2020
