Reviews
Harponium
Scottish harper Catriona McKay says that with her latest album she is ‘fusing the timbres of harp and harmonium into...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2014
Spring
Katayoun Goudarzi & Shujaat Husain Khan
The joy in making music within the mystic branch of Islam known as Sufism, and the verses of the 13th-century...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Apr/May/2014
Copperdollar: The Back of Beyond
This is the work of DJ Marc Stylus, resident disc spinner with the freaky immersive theatre company Copperdollar. Emerging out...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2014
Eastern Moon Rising
Serbian sax player Kovač is fond of wearing an incandescent pink suit. It's perhaps not the garb you'd expect: there...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Apr/May/2014
Skipping Rocks
Skipping Rocks is the second album by the father-and-son duo of Ken and Brad Kolodner, featuring the senior party on...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2014
Deeyah Presents: Iranian Woman
One of the most interesting untold stories (outside Iran) of music after the 1979 revolution is the emergence of an...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: Apr/May/2014
Transatlantic Sessions Series 6, Volume One
What started nearly two decades ago as an elegantly simple idea for a TV show – gather together some excellent...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2014
Ibibio Sound Machine
Given Nigeria's powerful musical tradition and the strong expat Nigerian community in the UK, it's perhaps surprising we haven't heard...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Apr/May/2014
So Long at the Fair
Janelle studied the cello before heading into the worlds of improvised music, contemporary dance and traditional folk, and the Ottawa...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2014
Sicilia Araba
This album is the latest instalment of a longstanding project to reimagine the music created by the Arab population of...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Apr/May/2014
