Turkey is famous as a meeting point of East and West. Fittingly, Pervane (Butterfly) is a piece that was created...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2014
As one of the UK’s most prolific Brazilian musicians, the percussionist Adriano Adewale has amassed an impressive list of credits...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2014
Weltensprung is a spine-tingling contemporary look at Bavarian folk music. The title itself translates roughly to ‘world jump.’ With this...
Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: June/2014
Following his recent collaboration with Jarlath Henderson on their 2013 release Air-fix, Ross Ainslie delivers another fine set of mainly...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2014
Harp and a Monkey, as the abrupt band name suggests, are a plain-speaking Lancastrian folk group. Frontman Martin Purdy tells...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2014
On her first album, View from Somewhere, the London-based Sudanese-Italian singer Amira Kheir explored the various musical traditions of Sudan....
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2014
Chartwell Dutiro is the artistic director of the Mhararano Mbira Academy in Devon, England. He is one of the leading...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2014
Marina Abad was the powerful, husky-voiced fulcrum of flamenco, hip-hop, Latin fusioneers Ojos de Brujo until they disbanded in 2011....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2014
Yaaba Funk are very much a London band: British and European, black and white, mixed-gender and politically engaged but intent...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2014
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