Reviews
Khoom Loy
Despite her firm background in the tradition, Norway's Annbjørg Lien has always been one of the most forward thinking of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2012
Åkerö
Maria Kalaniemi & Timo Alakotila
Two of Finland's most outstanding musicians celebrated 20 years of playing together last year. Kalaniemi and Alakotila were students when...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2012
The Descendants
“Paradise? Paradise can go f**k itself,’ utters the male protagonist of The Descendants, played by George Clooney. A sense of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2012
Chico: The Definitive Collection 1970-1984
All electric-blue eyes and honeyed voice, even at 68 Chico Buarque remains the debonair renaissance man par excellence, a Brazilian...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2012
Song Hành
This is the first collaboration between the Vietnamese singer and instrumentalist Ngo Hong Quang and the Dutch composer and arranger...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: June/2012
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Africa
If time travel ever becomes a viable option, Africa during the 1960s and 70s will be a priority destination if...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: June/2012
The Sublime Porte: Voices of Istanbul 1430-1750
The Sublime Porte is another concept album by Jordi Savall, issued just prior to Mare Nostrum, making use of much...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2012
Princesses of Arab Song
If any serious young Arab singer were going to devise the most challenging recording project imaginable, they'd probably come up...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: June/2012
Romantech
The New York Gypsy All Stars are a young five-piece band, playing contemporary Turkish and Balkan music. I was lucky...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2012
