Reviews
Affric
Chisholm was born and raised in Inverness, in the Scottish Highlands. He learned under the late, great fiddler player, composer...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Seben Steps to Heaven
Formed in Yorkshire and now based in London, Congo Dia Ntotila is comprised of a mixture of African (mostly Congolese)...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
The Boss of the Bossa Nova
Don’t let the title put you off, this is a handy, single-disc anthology of bossa alchemist João Gilberto’s first three...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Four Little Sisters
This all-female band is part of a vibrant, alternative string music community in San Francisco that has turned out new...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Sketches of Africa
David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet once speculated on what Beethoven’s works might have sounded like if he’d been able...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Wake the Union
The latest album from Devon duo Steve Knightleyand Phil Beer exhibits their trademark concern for making folk music speak to...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Flying Circus
Sharon Shannon and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
This week’s new word is ‘classional’, an apt term for the hybrid offspring of traditional and classical music, a mongrel...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Music of Central Asia Vol 10: Borderlands – Wu Man & Master Musicians from the Silk Route
Since 2006, the Aga Khan Music Initiative has produced a series of albums highlighting the musical traditions of Central Asia,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Black Eagle
Based in New Zealand’s musically-vibrant capital Wellington, singer Iva Lamkum boasts a Samoan-Chinese bloodline, but it’s difficult to identify all...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Kadior Demb
Thiès, Senegal’s third largest city, is a sleepy town at a major railway junction and home to one of the...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
