Reviews

Weird and Wonderful Tales

Bâton Bleu

French multi-instrumentalists Maria Laurent and Gautier Degandt specialise in hard-core acoustic folk, given a rock attitude, although still operating within...

Reviewed in issue April/2019

Kardeş

Divanhana

The movement in Bosnian music known as new sevdah, a recasting of a traditional urban song style with Slav, Turkish...

Reviewed in issue April/2019

Alagbe

André Sampaio

If it wasn't for the laidback, Portuguese vocals, you'd be convinced that this album came direct from Africa. In fact,...

Reviewed in issue April/2019

Bogotá

Klangwart

For the past 20 years, Bogotá has had a lively experimental jazz scene that every now and again peers into...

Reviewed in issue April/2019

Ascending

Amira Medunjanin & TrondheimSolistene

It's been 15 years since the exquisite Bosnian vocalist Amira first recorded on Mostar Sevdah Reunion's A Secret Gate and...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Children of the Otter

Huun Huur Tu & Opus Posth

The leading Tuvan throat singing group Huun Huur Tu have made many notable collaborations over the past 25 years. However,...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Takula

Takula

Takula is the eponymous debut of a five-piece from Malawi and Norway, comprising singer-guitarists Peter Mawanga, Faith Mussa and Georg...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Babel

Joce Mienniel

Classically trained and formerly the flautist with France's Orchestre National de Jazz, Mienniel's work as a chameleon bandleader has encompassed...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

True North

Phillip Henry

Ten years ago, Phillip Henry (best known as one half of the award-winning Devon folk duo, Edgelarks, with Hannah Martin)...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

The Journey

Lionel Loueke

Herbie Hancock was reputedly knocked out by Benin-born Lionel Loueke's guitar playing. It is indeed something special. On ‘Guira’, he...

Reviewed in issue March/2019