Reviews
Strings for Peace
Amjad Ali Khan, Sharon Isbin, Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash
This is a pretty unusual jugalbandi, as they call it when two Indian soloists duet together. I don’t think there...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Access Denied
Brexit, Trump and the rise of right-wing populism has positively cried out for the militant intervention of Asian Dub Foundation,...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Burden Lake
Kevin Henderson & Neil Pearlman
Burden Lake is the debut collaboration between Scotland’s Kevin Henderson on fiddle and American Neil Pearlman on piano, a beautiful...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
En Casa Limón
Although a long time resident of the US, David Broza’s background is from the UK, Spain and Israel, where he...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Free the System
About this album, Dandana say ‘the old system can’t easily deal with young or new ideas.’ In a time where...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Dusty Road
Klezmer might provide the heart of this quartet’s repertoire, but they also welcome added inputs, including tango, Gypsy jazz and...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Mazel
The Algerian group Democratoz mix rai and Gnawa with reggae, rock and jazz. Their debut album, Mazel, shows that it...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Live at Bakehouse
Australian-Iranian singer and instrumentalist Gelareh Pour begins her performance with a breathy introduction on her kamancheh (spike fiddle), before cautiously...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
They Say Humans Exist
Jacob Young, David Rothenberg & Sidiki Camara
Three musicians from three continents got together in a studio in the woods outside Oslo for two days of collective...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Roamin’
Danny Keane has spent the last decade abseiling across the face of world music, working with Anoushka Shankar, Nitin Sawhney...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
