Reviews

Made by Human Hands

Grand Union Orchestra

Grand Union have been making communal, culturally expansive and embracing music for four decades now, with a strong legacy of...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

WEMA

WEMA

London-based trio Penya set the bar high with last year’s self-titled album, a club-friendly clash of rhythms from Cuba to...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Pieds Nus

Soadan

Grégory Audrain, Jean-Marie Lemasson and Armel Goupil are the three multi-instrumentalists that make up French fusion group Soadan. After spending...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Oras Dezaoradas

Lily Henley

Lily Henley is a storyteller. Here she weaves traditional Sephardic Jewish ballads (alongside three originals) into her own melodic compositions,...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

For the Love of Tabla

Toronto Tabla Ensemble

North India’s favourite percussion instrument, the tabla, has always been relegated to being an accompaniment and it was the subservient,...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Project Locrea

Project Locrea

The American capital is a hub, where many great musicians from all corners of the world for years have put...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Babdoukkala

Julian Belbachir

Born in Sydney, Australia to a Moroccan father and an Australian-Polish mother, multi-instrumentalist Julian Belbachir is a talented percussionist, ngoni...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Ready for the Times

Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow

Last year, rootsy singer-guitarist Williams (US-born but now resident in the UK) teamed up with violinist Catlow (known for his...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Hafla

Jon Balke’s Siwan

East meets West via North and South in this latest project from Siwan, an international collaboration of musicians headed by...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Pastourelle

Daniel Bellegarde

Montréal percussionist Daniel Bellegarde’s second solo album continues his fascination with the music of Haiti and the French West Indies,...

Reviewed in issue July/2022