Reviews
From Our World to Yours
This second duo recording by Gao Hong and Issam Rafea – a follow-up to 2018's excellent Life As Is –...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2020
Angelina
The Bulgarian Voices Angelite, one of the more successful splinter groups formed from the ashes of the once lavishly funded...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Apr/May/2013
Inner Spaces
Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch
The latest release from Iraqi-American trumpeter, santur player and vocalist Amir ElSaffar and composer and sound artist Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch,...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2025
Mentro
The title of this album is taken from a traditional tune, ‘Mentra, Gwen’ (Venture, Gwen). How could Gwen Màiri resist...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2020
Landskein
Lauren MacColl is one of Scotland’s finest fiddlers. Her latest album’s title, Landskein, loosely means ‘Thread’ and it is in...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2020
Pa mi Gente
As the nephew of the celebrated guitarist Manuel Fernández Molina, better known in flamenco circles as Parrilla de Jerez, Manuel...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2015
Hämeen Lauluja
Anne-Mari Kivimäki & Palomylly
This is the fourth release of this Finnish trio of multi-instrumentalists comprised of Anne-Mari Kivimäki on notka (accordion), vocals and...
Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: March/2020
Songs from the Pearl of Khorasan
The story of Afghan rubab master Nasim Khushnawaz is as fascinating as it is fraught with unimaginable adversity. Born in...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: November/2022
Nyn
Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis
Stassinopoulou has aptly described herself as a ‘Balkan ethno-trance artist’ and a practitioner of techno-folk psychedelia. I’ve been listening to...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: November/2016
