Reviews
Marimba del Pacífico
Spanish-speaking South America's African music remains a largely untold story. For more than two centuries the culture of those descended...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2017
Travelers
Three years ago, the Brooklyn-based artist collective Found Sound Nation and the US embassy in Islamabad collaborated to launch the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2017
Canzoni della Cupa
Vinicio Capossela's new double album contains songs that have emerged slowly over a decade. These 23 tracks are divided into...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: October/2017
Daba
The simple, unaffected, sound of the traditional ngoni (lute) is one of West Africa's most distinctive and evocative musical delights....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2017
Ghanashyam: A Broken Branch
This fascinating and eclectic work is the full version of Ravi Shankar's piece commissioned and first performed by Birmingham Touring...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2017
Painted
Joe Broughton's Conservatoire Folk Ensemble
Painted is a kind of folk thesis: a powerful argument that all the world's musical styles comprise a patchwork we...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2017
Shame
If Nashville singer and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Baiman's debut solo album were a time of day, it would be a warm...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2017
Inland Sea
I was first drawn to the music of Stephan Micus by his piece written for 56 flowerpots in the 1980s....
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2017
44070
This American quintet play Gypsy swing in what initially appears to be quite a straight-ahead way, but which on further...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2017
