This ill-Focused collection of ‘found sound’ excerpts mixed in with live performances – conducted, presumably, on the streets – and...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2016
Old Salt are a six-piece collective of musicians from the US, Belgium, Sweden and Scotland who first came together at...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2016
Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI & La Capella Reial de Catalunya
On his new theme album, named after Granada – the city that epitomised Muslim rule in Spain and also witnessed...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: October/2016
Those who know the work of British composer, producer and musician Shammi Pithia will know to expect a dreamy, cinematic...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2016
Accordionist and composer Tuulikki Bartosik made quite an impression with her previous album, Chatterbox, with Hannah James. Her latest project,...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2016
Ágnes Herczku and her band, led by Nikola Parov, are standout musicians on the Hungarian folk scene, and their album...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2016
It's been a productive few years for the acclaimed and distinctive English art-folk duo of Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2016
It certainly sounds like a piano. But not as you know it. Against a drone of tambura, pianist Utsav Lal...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2016
A former teacher and journalist in his native Syria, Jan Ibro Khelil fled to Norway in 2010 and was granted...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
In the world of the djembé, we have progressed a long way from CDs of traditional dance drumming captured purely...
Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: October/2016
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