Reviews
Nim: Taegum Collection
Hyelim Kim is one of Europe’s leading proponents of the taegum, a transverse bamboo flute that serves as a cornerstone...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Tiddukla
The banjo has been a popular instrument in Moroccan music since the early 1970s, when it was first introduced by...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Varka
Dafné Kritharas | DafnÉ Kritharas
It needs to be said at the outset that Dafné Kritharas has a fantastic voice, it has a clear, pure...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: April/2022
The Great Irish Songbook
Dervish mark 30 years together with their first studio album in more than a decade and the first to be...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2019
Spellbound
It might be an act of contrariness for one of the world’s leading percussionists to devote an album to the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2013
You Will Never Die!
Clarinettist Yom's second project with his band The Wonder Rabbis comes seven years after the first one. In between, he's...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
In Tribute to Talip Özkan
Turkish saz player Emre Gültekin has recorded two duo albums with Armenian duduk player Vardan Hovanissian (their Karin was a...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/February/2022
Ponguru
On the surface this may seem like an odd pairing, but the combination of New Zealanders Fraser and Boniface actually...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
