Reviews
Tamburo Infinito
An album named Tamburo Infinito is fairly self-explanatory in its intentions. The seventh record from Italian multi-instrumentalist Gabriele Poso, it...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Blessed Sadness
Antoni O'Breskey has long been a prolific, border-denying, genre-splicing presence in his adopted Ireland. Italian-born with Argentinian roots, his musical...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Voices from the Empty Moor (Songs of Anne Briggs)
Imagine ‘She Moved Through the Fair’ given voice through bowed solo bass, its opening notes rumbling like the subterranean calls...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
ID
The album cover says it all: a picture of the globe, the various continents composed of heads of human beings...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Hope in an Empty City
Recorded in New York before the onset of COVID-19, this latest album by Egyptian/Australian oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros is a...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Le Notti di San Patrizio
An Italian-based singer-songwriter born in Salvador, Bahia, Nilza Costa and her powerful, emotionally-charged voice represent a place at the cultural...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Vignettes
Vignettes is a series of small windows into the life, history and identity of its creator, London-based sitar player and...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Godless Ceremony
Islandman supplies slick multi-layered atmospheric down-tempo electronica with an ethno touch. Featuring musicians from all over the globe, the title...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Sounds of Sudan
Bristol-based oud players Ali Elmubarak and Knud Stüwe came together as Nabra in 2015 to explore a shared love of...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
