Reviews
Two Beats One Soul
Of all the recent Cuban mash-ups, this fusion of Cuban and North American music comes with the most inflated publicity....
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2018
Praise Drumming
Bengt Berger & Bitter Funeral Beer Band
Bengt Berger has studied and performed music in Ghana, specifically Ewe drumming, and funeral music from the north. He returned...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2018
Run Kitty Run
Big, brassy, bold and Bollywood, The Bombay Royale do not hold back. Run Kitty Run, the Melbourne 11-piece's third studio...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2018
Jedid
Osama Abdulrasol is a qanun (zither) player and composer whose fusion style blends Middle Eastern, Western classical and jazz influences,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2018
Monarch
Listen to the whirling guitar riffs, pulsing harmonica shouts and virile vocals on ‘Little Bird’, the opening track of this...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2018
Ar Baradoz: Sacred Songs of Lower Brittany
Yann-Fañch Kemener, Florence Rousseau & Aldo Ripoche
The Breton music most familiar to us tends to be forthright: bagpipe bands, the talabard (bombard) or choirs singing lustily....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2018
La Part du Hasard
Twenty-three years, 12 albums, one theme: Xavier Demerliac's oeuvre is as steadfast as a train steaming down the track. Each...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2018
Nahnou Houm
Siwan is the name of a collective of musicians that Norwegian jazz keyboardist and composer Jon Balke has assembled for...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: March/2018
Hoolima
The allure of bluegrass, from its early beginnings in Kentucky, has spread far and wide, leaving its influence in many...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2018
