Reviews
Goddess Polka Dottess
This is the fifth album by a sprawling New York collective, who are not a million styles away from the...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
Not so much world music as otherworldly, the reissue of the album Brian Eno produced in 1980 for the American...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
The Art of Mongolian Khöömii
For the past 25 years Mongolian khöömei has enthralled audiences worldwide. With roots in West Mongolia, Tuva and the Altai...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Renascence
Given her status as the queen of the Mande griots, it comes as a shock to realise that this is...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Synaesthesia
Synaesthesia is a new release from the Lush Spa/ECC partnership, led by Simon Emmerson, who's lived in Dorset for the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Weight of the World
There's a lot to like about this adventurous duet album by Rachel Baiman and Christian Sedelmyer. The former is a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Our Earth and Water
Georgian polyphony is one of the great vocal traditions of the world. Complex harmonies, laced with dissonance, clash and resolve...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
In Sciô Ton
One of Italy's many musical treasures, trallalero is an urban group-harmony singing from Genoa, organised around at least eight singers...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Gaelré
Gaelré sees Belfast's Gráinne Holland delivering a spellbinding follow-up to her 2011 debut Teanga na nGael. Reunited with arranger and...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
