Reviews
KUNE
KUNE: Canada's Global Orchestra
Toronto is a famously cosmopolitan city in an increasingly multicultural country, and KUNÉ was a project deliberately created to reflect...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Ponguru
On the surface this may seem like an odd pairing, but the combination of New Zealanders Fraser and Boniface actually...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Destination Overground: The Story of Transglobal Underground
Transglobal Underground feat Natacha Atlas
The original Transglobal crew are still working together, with and without Natacha Atlas, whose solo star has shone in the...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Rooftop Sessions
The piano keys fall like drops of water, the violin soars like a gull over 0resund, while the delicate pluck...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Old Stock
The resonantly crackling baritone voice of Ben Caplan dominates the proceedings on Old Stock, the Halifax, Nova Scotia native's third...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
On & Between: New Music for Pipa & Western Ensembles
This suite of pieces by New York-based pianist and composer Zhen Chen is a musical tribute to Chinese immigrants to...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
The Good is a Big God
Over the years, I have returned to Rio drummer Domenico Lancellotti's collaborations with Moreno Veloso and Alexandre Kassin - the...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Francesita
‘Francesita’ is one of several pieces on this fine double album composed by Enrique Delfino, the now near-forgotten pioneer of...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Jazz Tango
A member of Astor Piazzolla's last quintet, Buenos Aires-born pianist Pablo Ziegler shared the innovator's liking for both classical and...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Chants of India
HariSongs is a new label set up to re-release some of the music in the family archive of the late...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
