Reviews
Secrets of Navigation
The Los Angelesbased violinist Chris Murphy has self-released a prolific raft of albums under his own name on his Teahouse...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Songbooks_Vol_1
The Ligeti Quartet perform a series of pieces by British composer Christian Mason, inspired by two very different traditions of...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
3NE
Niqolah Seeva seeks to push established boundaries and challenge our preconceptions; his first album presents itself as the clarion call...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
Windrush
As a Pennsylvaniaborn singer-songwriter and mandolinist married to a Frenchwoman and living in Cambridgeshire during the Brexit tussles, it’s perhaps...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
African Rhythms 1970-1982
Oneness of Juju, led by James ‘Plunky’ Branch, were one of the first US bands to incorporate elements of African...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
Cosmic Disco
nemanja’s Cosmic Disco – from a world music perspective – isn’t what we’d expect from Croatia, specifically Istria, a historically...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
Janna Aana
There have been enough qawwali- electronica fusions they could almost be their own sub-genre. The point of encounter seems to...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
My Earth Songs
Lonnie Park and the Earth Band
Nobody could question the worthiness of this project – the proceeds from which benefit UNICEF’s COVID-19 relief fund for children...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
Hayvan Gibi
The intimacy of hearing – and seeing – Baba Zula Live has Lately surpassed the experience of Listening to some...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
Delhi to Damascus
This album is predicated on the idea that by changing just a few elements of a musical style or tradition...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
