Reviews

Over That Road I’m Bound

Joachim Cooder

In the two decades and more since the 18-year-old Joachim Cooder played percussion alongside Ry Cooder on Buena Vista Social...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

NO VISA

Captain Planet

Globe-trotting producer Captain Planet calls his personal style ‘gumbo funk’ – all manner of flavours brought together and bubbled into...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

In Mumbai

Fraser Fifield

Equally at home in both the trad and jazz worlds, saxophonist, piper and whistler Fraser Fifield is one of those...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Shaman!

Idris Ackamoor

With the return of original band member Dr Margaux Simmons on flute, the Pyramids are now seven. This alone helps...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Pipers

Clarinet Factory

I’m a big fan of the clarinet. Of all the wind instruments it has the widest and most varied range...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

West Meets East: Indian Music and its Influence on the West

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The bottom has rather dropped out of the market for world music compilations but just occasionally a valuable collection can...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Woodlands

Woodlands

Justyna Krzyzanowska’s harp provides the dancing rhythmic opening to this album, which is then accompanied by Kristina Leesik’s fiddle, bringing...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Paradise Cinema

Paradise Cinema

Portico Quartet’s Jack Wyllie recorded this album in Dakar, Senegal, influenced by the sound of mbalax that played until six...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

The Birth and Death of Stars

MZAZA

MZAZA are a six-piece band with an Australian-European line-up and an aesthetic that recalls the free-spirited romanticism of Lhasa de...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Saqqara

Esbe

Saqqara is the fifth studio album by the London-based composer, producer and vocalist Esbe. Trained in classical guitar at the...

Reviewed in issue November/2020