Reviews
Neynik (Mirror)
Listening to Neynik, if there is one thing that we would not suspect, it is that Eléonore is French… This...
Reviewed by Anne Girard Esposito in issue: August/2024
Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and Gambia
It has long been recognised that the banjo's history can be traced back to West Africa, though until recently it...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: April/2023
The Koka Koka Sex Battalion – Music from Tanzania 1975-1980
It's gratifying to know that some record labels are still able to recognise the value of compilations of vintage, previously...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012
The High Stepping Music of Sheesham & Lotus & Son
Canadian trio Sheesham & Lotus & Son made a strong impression with their debut album 1929 and energetic live performances...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Paris to Calcutta: Men and Music on the Desert Road
This handsome set matches a four-disc, unexpurgated record of Bengali ethnomusicologist Deben Bhattacharya's 1955 epic field recording road trip, illustrated...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Roots of Strings: A Musical Journey with the Arabic Oud
It's a dark irony that the protracted suffering of the Syrian conflict has given Western audiences unprecedented opportunities to hear...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: June/2021
In the Heart of Sumedang: Field Recordings from West Java
Two divergent sides of Sundanese music culture are highlighted in this exemplary set of field recordings from the highlands of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: February/March/2025
Concert Program
Penguin Cafe Orchestra | Simon Jeffes
The orchestra that was the fruit of a feverish, food-poisoned dream in the south of France in the early 1970s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
No Stranger Here
Shubha Mudgal, Ursula Rucker & the Business Class Refugees
Initially I found the very idea of this album a little off-putting. A selection of 16th century Indian poems by...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Apr/May/2012
I Wanna Sing Right: Rediscovering Lomax in the Evangeline Country
Co-produced by Joel Savoy and Joshua Clegg Caffery, and based on Caffery's scholarly tome, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2016
