Reviews
Gayageum Sanzo
JeongHyun Chu | SongJa Chee | YoungHo Shu
The primary Korean instrumental genre that bridges folk and art traditions is sanjo (on these releases romanised as ‘sanzo’). A...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: October/2011
Bermuda: Gombay & Calypso 1953-1960
This double CD follows other Frémeaux recordings of 50s Caribbean popular music. But whereas the previous compilations Jamaica Mento and...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: March/2013
A Black & Tan Ball
Ben Hunter, Phil Wiggins & Joe Seamons
This may not be a concert recording, but it has all the spontaneity, intimacy and magic of a great gig:...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: May/2017
The Impossible Song & Other Songs
The former Idlewild singer follows his acclaimed album Before the Ruin, made as a trio with guitarist and singer Kris...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011
The Life & Times Of…
The Hot 8 Brass Band have every right to sing the blues. Forced to flee New Orleans due to Hurricane...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Fern Girl & Ice Man
What we have here are two collections of old and familiar song forms. But they are reconstituted with observant, contemporary...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2016
On & Between: New Music for Pipa & Western Ensembles
This suite of pieces by New York-based pianist and composer Zhen Chen is a musical tribute to Chinese immigrants to...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66
This double-CD set captures the ‘colonial’-influenced dance music of Anglophone West Africa, from shortly before and after Ghanaian and Nigerian...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2015
De Momento
Ventilador has become a platform for mestizo music, a distinctive Spanish melange of flamenco strains, Latin American rhythms, jazz tropes,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010
Black &White: Recorded in the Field by Art Rosenbaum
In 2007 and 2009, Dust to D igital released volumes one and two of Art of the Field Recording by...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2011
