Reviews
Disko Telegraf
Balkan Taksim are the latest act to push the Balkan sound into fresh and exciting Turkish territory, reminding one of...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: June/2021
Ojos de Novia
Stating that Mor Karbasi is one of the most spellbinding contemporary singers in the world seems unnecessary. And that's exactly...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
It's Time
In 2002 the Red Hot + Riotcompilation album, which was an AIDS awareness release and tribute to the music of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Victoria Hanna
Victoria Hanna was born into an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family deep in the heart of Jerusalem. On one side of the...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Chiaroscuro
Baird Hersey & Prana with Nexus
A collaboration on many levels, this album brings the innovative instrument-building skills of Garry Kvistad, the multiphonic singing abilities of...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2016
North
The elder sister of Cara and former frontwoman of 90s Irish powerhouse Déanta, Mary Dillon has followed up her 2010...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Apr/May/2013
Remembrance
Imagine Tom Waits heading north and living for a while with Sámi musicians in Norway. Steinar Raknes has a voice...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
The Ones Ahead
As he entered his seventies, the classically-trained Canada-based singer/composer Glenn-Copeland was lapsing into dignified retirement. Then he made public his...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2023
Traverse
Laura Risk, Nicholas Williams & Rachel Aucoin
Californian Laura Risk now resides in Montreal and has been playing Québécois fiddle for decades. Traverse is her first solo...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: October/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
