Reviews

Refuge

Sultans of String

Through the medium of slick folk fusion, Refuge delivers a message of tolerance towards immigrants and refugees. The Canadian-based Sultans...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn

Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn

While her husband Béla Fleck has been busily recording with African musicians, Abigail Washburn has forged a productive collaboration with...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

DOD

Agbeko

Mancunian Afrobeat: it's a long way from The Haçienda club, but why not indeed? This 11-piece outfit was named one...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

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HILA

HILA (Hay/High in Los Angeles) is the brainchild of Armenian cellist Artyom Manukyan and Armenian-American producer Dawatile. Their debut album...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

The Vienna Tapes

Dunkelbunt

In 2001 Ulf Lindemann (aka Dunkelbunt) moved from Hamburg to Vienna. That was his first journey eastward - his first...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Bonny Light Horseman

Bonny Light Horseman

Seven years ago, Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer released Child Ballads, winning a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award the following...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Puja

Dijf Sanders

This is is the follow-up to Sanders' 2018 release, Java. As with that album, this, his third solo effort, features...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Oficina Itinerante

Jean-Luc Thomas

Jean-Luc Thomas is a Breton flute player who describes himself as ‘musician and traveller’; previous collaborations have brought him together...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

A Year of Swimming

Derek Gripper

From the off, the latest release from the incredible instrumentalist drops you into his utterly unique African guitar cosmos. For...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Ethiobraz

Large Unit Fendika

The traditional Ethiopian musicians of Addis Ababa's Fendika Azmari Bet have joined forces with Paal Nilssen-Love's pan-Scandinavian group Large Unit...

Reviewed in issue May/2020