Reviews
Rhythms of Azerbaijani Dances
This is the latest in Felmay’s series of Azerbaijani music that focuses on folk and dance repertoire, and it features...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Erzulie
Yilian Cañizares’ credentials are impeccable: born in Havana, she mastered violin in Caracas’ El Sistema programme, debuted dashingly at the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Improvisations from the Doyen of Kurdish Nay
Respected as a sideman of numerous Persian artists, Kurdish ney or nay (reed flute) virtuoso Shaho Andalibi presents his first...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2025
Studio 105
Mayra Andrade has released just two albums:her spellbinding and multi award-winning 2006 debut Navega and its lusher 2010 follow-up Stória...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Audio Descriptive
Shammi Pithia says he owes a debt to fellow British Asian musician Nitin Sawhney. On the evidence of his 16-track...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Sleep With One Eye Open
One wag once described bluegrass music as ‘bebop for the harmonically challenged.’ If there's any truth to this rather snooty...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2011
Language of the Heart
Santiago Quartet with Julian Rowlands
Who exactly is playing here – and playing what – is a challenge to explain. The Santiago Quartet are UK-based...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2018
42 Days
Formed of sound artists Sophia Shen and Lemon Guo, Southeast of Rain was conceived in the autumn of 2019, when...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2021
A Path of Light
When Jeff Adler sat down to write a song as a gift for his friend's daughter on the occasion of...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: October/2019
Eternal Love
Simdi Ensemble & Michel Godard
This unusual album explores the tuneful Turkish Sufi song tradition with the aid of Michel Godard on tuba and serpent....
Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: June/2016
