Reviews
Zik’r East/Zik’r West
Born in Morocco to Jewish parents and raised in Paris, Ruimy spent seven years as a banker and financier before...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2015
Empathy Moves the Water
Since Jeff Kazor formed the Crooked Jades in San Francisco more than 20 years ago, they have become one of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2019
Dur-Dur, Vol 5
It looks to me like this decade is seeing a huge growth in sales of retro world music albums, which...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: June/2013
Tafrigh Vol 1
Tafrigh cannot be categorised easily. Rooted in different musical genres and styles, it is a mesmerising post-modern mixture of bizarre...
Reviewed by Kamyar Salavati in issue: July/2022
Birds Requiem
Just how many jazz oud recordings does the world really need? While there certainly is a shared tradition of improvisation...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: March/2014
Varokaa! Hengenvaara
Suistamon Sähkö exist in their own colourful world and, every so often, I’m glad to say, they let us in....
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2021
Tree Dimensional Tunes
Former Finnish ballet dancer Maarika Autio went to West Africa to study kora and the diatonic balafon, which is rarely...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: October/2021
Warsaw's Jewish Mermaid: Syrena Recordings from the Orvomaa Archive 1909-1933
Renair Records are unearthing rare sources of Jewish music from hidden archives. Chekhov's Band, the last album, reviewed in #114,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Weight of the World
There's a lot to like about this adventurous duet album by Rachel Baiman and Christian Sedelmyer. The former is a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
A Gypsy Journey Part II: El Refugio
Mexico City-born El Javi humbly styles himself ‘The King of Rock Flamenco.’ The follow-up to an earlier EP called The...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2018
