Reviews
Zanzibara 7: Sikinde vs Ndekule
This fine addition to the confusingly titled Zanzibara series focuses on two of the leading bands from the astonishingly fertile...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Hidden Seam
Wild and Undaunted was a striking debut, followed six years later by 2012’s Hunt the Hare EP. Now, at last,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Inside Llewyn Davis
If there is a precedent for promoting a soundtrack in a similar way to the campaign for the forthcoming movie...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Kula Kulluk Yakisir M1
Kayhan Kalhor & Erdal Erzincan
Iranian kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor and Turkish saz player Erdal Erzincan are both fantastic traditional musicians with a taste for...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Sweet Nostalgia
‘I take comfort in being able to express fragments of the past through songs of old love and sounds of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Fists of Violets
Record store categories are disappearing along with the retail stores that made use of them. And that may in some...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Mortissa
Readers may already be familiar with Çigdem Aslan, as she’s lead singer with She’koyokh, the fabulous London-based Balkan klezmer ensemble....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Mynd
Mynd is the apt title of this excellent album, an Old English word meaning both ‘act of commemoration’ and ‘intellect.’...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Flourish
Katie McNally is a terrific young fiddle player from Boston, who, devoted to the Scottish and Cape Breton traditions, is...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
