Reviews
The Wax Cylinder Recordings
The reign of the wax cylinder was very short – a mere 20 years around the turn of the last...
Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: June/2017
Peace in the World
Ordinarily, the success of collaborations between disparate traditions is contingent on both the sonic compatibility of the instruments and the...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2017
Mzansi Beat Code
South Africa's Spoek Mathambo is a busy man. The celebrated songwriter and rapper also fronts Pan-African ensemble Batuk and the...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: June/2017
Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988
Fans of Cape Verdean music will be familiar with its typical lack of drums and use of gently strummed cavaquinho,...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: June/2017
Rise Aurora
This debut album from the Sussex folk singer Rosie Hodgson is the culmination of much time on the English folk...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2017
And it Was Good
While I can't claim to have coined it, the term ‘chambergrass’ is the nearly perfect one-word description of the music...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2017
Sài Gòn, Saïgon
Huong Thanh & Franck Tortiller
To Saigon for a postmodern nostalgia trip; here, veteran Vietnamese vocalist Huong Thanh revisits the songs of French colonial Vietnam,...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2017
Protection: Himalayan Buddhist Mantras
Talking to an anthropologist friend, I asked why the West remains so fascinated with Tibet. I learned about Madame Helena...
Reviewed by Thomas Christie Williams in issue: June/2017
