Reviews
The Fluid Piano
It certainly sounds like a piano. But not as you know it. Against a drone of tambura, pianist Utsav Lal...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2016
Lament for Syria
A former teacher and journalist in his native Syria, Jan Ibro Khelil fled to Norway in 2010 and was granted...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
Dakan
In the world of the djembé, we have progressed a long way from CDs of traditional dance drumming captured purely...
Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: October/2016
Nigeria Freedom Sounds!
Subtitled ‘Popular Music and the Birth of Independent Nigeria,’ these 23 tracks were all recorded more than half a century...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
Meridian 68
We are getting used to wild and wonderful global collaborations. But this must still be a first; a Polish-Ukrainian band...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Celebrating Emperor Tewodros II
Anyone familiar with Francis Falceto's marvellous Éthiopiques series will have a good idea of what to expect from this album...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Every Bird that Flies
‘The Fall’ begins in paradise: lying on the ground on a summer's day, and a child running about. Suddenly there's...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
It's Time
In 2002 the Red Hot + Riotcompilation album, which was an AIDS awareness release and tribute to the music of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Most Jöttem
Félix Lajkó is Hungary's most groundbreaking violinist and this is one of his best recordings in years. He inhabits an...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
The Hazel and Alice Sessions
Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands
Bluegrass veteran Laurie Lewis does her mentors proud with this 14-track tribute to the undisputed female heavyweight champions of the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
