Reviews
Wa Maret El Ayam /Hakam Aleena El Hawa
The cultural legacy Oum Kalthoum holds in Egypt and the wider Arab world is impossible to overstate. Beloved by heads...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2023
Folkocracy
Son of folk-singers Loudon Wainwright and the late Kate McGarrigle, young Rufus can claim descent from ‘folkocracy’, although since his...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2023
Medna Roso
PJEV, Kit Downes & Hayden Chisholm
This is the kind of inter-cultural collaboration I can get into. Too often, such projects are the mooncalves of questions...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2023
Hues of Imagination
Melisa Yıldırım & Swarupa Ananth
This is a remarkable duo of Anatolian fiddle with Indian tabla percussion. Melisa Yıldırım plays an Azeri-style bowed kamancha with...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2023
The World and All That It Holds
There are some critics out there – and I am not one – who maintain that Damir Imamović is heir...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: July/2023
Speech of Species
This follow-up to Belgian quartet Echoes Of Zoo's 2021 debut Breakout is, by all accounts, a concept album exploring the...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2023
Octophilia
KermesZ à l’Est are extraordinary mash-up merchants. Their name is invented to sound Eastern European and the eight-piece Belgian band...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2023
Catching Ghosts
Peter Brötzmann, Majid Bekkas & Hamid Drake
Peter Brötzmann is a graduate of the 1960s free jazz movement, who plays saxophone clarinet and the Eastern European tárogató....
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: July/2023
London Ko
Fatoumata Diawara has always been the fresh voice of Malian music, pushing the boundaries of what a contemporary African music...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: July/2023
