Reviews
Sing Me Home
Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma founded the Silk Road Ensemble in 2000 to explore the music of the cultures along the ancient...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2016
Tales of Mozambique
Count Ossie & the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
As curators of the excellent 100% Dynamite series, Soul Jazz introduced many to the lesser-known wonders of Jamaican music. On...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2016
Voice of the People: “It Was Mighty!” – The Early Days of Irish Music in London
These two sets of field recordings – from the pubs, clubs, ballrooms, bars, private rooms, Irish centres and occasional radio...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2016
Tribute to Irakere
Paying tribute to your former band might sound like a vainglorious kind of nostalgia, if it weren’t for the fact...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2016
Bes
Formed in 2012, the trio who make up the Dwarfs found themselves living in the same apartment building in Cairo's...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2016
Sociedade Recreativa
There's something about the off-kilter charm of the music of north-east Brazil that can sometimes be more appealing than the...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: June/2016
Monistic Theory
When West African and Anglo-American musicians collaborate, the results are often heavily based on improvisation. The approach that goes ‘I’ll...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2016
Pa’ki Pa’ka
Raised in Sweden and Australia and trained as a classical guitarist, Robert Svärd fell into flamenco from a distance, but...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2016
Lema Lema
New York-based Eva Salina has grown up surrounded by Balkan music. On Lema Lema she has created an album that...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2016
