Reviews

Via de la Plata

Daniel García Trio

Playing an album by a Spanish pianist on ACT Music, you might immediately expect to hear some variety of flamenco...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Shapes in Twilights of Infinity

ESINAM

ESINAM is a Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist who creates cosmic soundscapes by fusing intricate rhythms, silvery flute, ethereal vocals, African percussion, spoken...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Asimétrico

El Remolón

It’s a pity the name ‘trance’ has already been taken for a music genre, as it is the perfect descriptor...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

The Empress

The McDades

Siblings Shannon, Solon and Jeremiah McDade have been steeped in folk music from childhood, playing in a family band with...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Songs Inspired by the Film The Beatles and India

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Here are two discs to accompany the new documentary film on the highly influential period when The Beatles visited India...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Blue as the Turquoise Night

Eric Jacobson, Kayhan Kalhor, Sandeep Das

The quality of this album comes as no surprise when you discover that it has close connections to Yo-Yo Ma’s...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

The Road Never Travelled

Tzimmes

Tzimmes translates in Yiddish a ‘big fuss.’ It’s also an Eastern European Jewish dish: a sweet, honeyed mix of root...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Night + Day

Opium Moon

With their debut album winning a Grammy for Best New Age Album back in 2019, the sophomore release from this...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Laroyê

Àbáse

This debut album by Hungarian producer and multi-instrumentalist Szabolcs Bognár (aka Àbáse) is exactly what its title means in the...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Sa

Parvyn

Australian Punjabi singer Parvyn grew up among Sikh devotional music and trained in Hindustani classical music and dance. She began...

Reviewed in issue December/2021