Reviews
Djoyas de Mar
This album is not only musically interesting but is an inventive reimagining and bringing together of two traditions. At first...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Raï is not Dead
Fanfaraï Big Band have been known as just Fanfaraï since their inception in 2005, but have now renamed owing to...
Reviewed by Marwan Shamiyeh in issue: July/2018
Live from the Art Farm
If it weren’t for the enthused reaction of the small audience gathered before The Fretless in the Art Farm, a...
Reviewed by Rachel Cunniffe in issue: July/2018
Painted Sands
You can almost taste the spices and smell the sweat of the Silk Road, the kicked-up dirt from millions of...
Reviewed by Leander Hobbs in issue: July/2018
Owl Light
This is the debut album from an Oxfordshire folk trio that has emerged from the folk group Telling the Bees,...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2018
Sirocco
On the remix of ‘Andalucia’ that concludes this rewarding album, intermittent shots of percussion unsettle the underlying rumba and flamenco...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2018
Wande
Malian guitarist and vocalist Samba Touré was a protégé of Ali Farka Touré, having been a member of his touring...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2018
Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris
The impressive scholarship and production nous of the Atlanta-based Dust-to-Digital label is here applied to a multimedia collection of the...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: July/2018
Topspin
Cardboard Fox's music is striking for its lightness – a lightness of touch, that is, not of content. In this...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2018
Öte
Turkish musicologists Ali Fuat Aydin and Cenk Güray continue their successful collaboration with this tribute to Ottoman composer Tanburi Cemil...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: July/2018
