Reviews
Japanese Traditional Music: Songs of People at Work and Play
This album is the fifth volume in an anthology of traditional Japanese music, created in 1941 by the Kokusai Bunka...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2017
From the Stillhouse
Hailing from the frozen forests of northern Ontario, Murder Murder describe themselves as a ‘bloodgrass’ band. Particularly interested in murder...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2017
Seamount
Birlinn Jiarg are a band that was put together by whistle and Anglo concertina player Beccy Hurst to perform the...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2017
Metromonk
The Austrian-born percussionist and composer Manu Delago has become the foremost proponent of the instrument known as the hang, having...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2017
Eu Também
A São Paulo-born, Paris-based sambista who's long been a staple of Brazil's nordeste (north-east) scene, Fernando delPapa combines a career's...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2017
Na Kitabo
The scion of a long line of griots and kora (harp-lute) virtuosi from Casamance in southern Senegal, Kadialy Kouyaté is...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2017
Vieilles Caniques et Nouvelles Caniques
Stanley Brinks & the Old-Time Kaniks
Indie-folk is often terrible: a ham-fisted, middle-of-the-road mush of xylophones and ukuleles that is unashamedly twee and contrivedly cute. Thankfully,...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2017
Made in Africa
The KutiMangoes started with a simple musical goal in mind: Fela Kuti meets Charles Mingus. Such giants in their field...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2017
Running Away With the Circus
The Trans-Siberian March Band's line-up is the expected Balkan spread of clarinets, trumpets, trombones, and alto saxophone, but with a...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: March/2017
