Reviews
The Rough Guide to World Music For Children
The liner notes of this compilation of 18 tracks from World Music Network's excellent back catalogue claim that youthful listeners...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Music from Turkey
Various Artists/Sameyda Ensemble
This CD reissues two albums: a collection of field recordings by Indian ethnomusicologist Deben Bhattacharya, issued as Turkisk Musik in...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Exil-Exile
Kyriakos Kalaitzidis & En Chordais
I've had time for composer and oud player Kyriakos Kalaitzidis since I first encountered his ensemble/record label En Chordais in...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Pomegranate
Blending Western classical stylistics and compositional techniques with tunes and sonorities from a mainly Mediterranean and Eastern European catchment, Kosmos...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Outra Margem
It is a tricky path, the one Vila Navio find themselves exploring: taking Portuguese traditional music and injecting it with...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Alumaye
The second album from the Burkinabé kamalengoni player Massa Dembele has a much bigger sound compared to his mostly solo...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Variācijas
At the core of the Latvian group Lata Donga are four singers from a single family who can be heard...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
The People
The People is the first album from MA Rouf, the latest band of Iranian-Finnish composer and musician Marouf Majidi. Majidi...
Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Jambú: E Os Míticos Sons Da Amazônia
These are the songs that seduced Dona Onete – the 80-year-old siren of the Amazon – when she was young...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
