Reviews
Afternoon Tea at Six
Following just two years after their excellent 2018 debut Nim Dong, this second recording by Sydney ethno-jazz collective Eishan Ensemble...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2020
Escape Plan
Since first hearing Thornato’s edits of dancehall and Afro-Colombian folk music in the early 2010s, it’s remarkable how his MO...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2020
Metromonk
The Austrian-born percussionist and composer Manu Delago has become the foremost proponent of the instrument known as the hang, having...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2017
Decemberwell
An ambitious challenge was the impetus for Mike Vass’ new album. He aimed to compose and record it in just...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2013
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
Cloud Wandering
One of the foremost performers of Okinawan folk music, vocalist and sanshin (banjo-like lute) player Takashi Hirayasu came to prominence...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2019
Both Sides of the Aegean
Hüsnü Senlendirici & Trio Chios
Hüsnü Şenlendirici is Turkey's big clarinet star, famed for his glitzy virtuoso style and, unfortunately, a tendency for saccharine arrangements...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Aavartan – Dawn to Dusk
Kala Ramnath is both a traditionalist and an experimentalist in the Indian classical tradition. She is also quite simply one...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Šatrika
Čači Vorba is the name of the group, but it's vocalist and fiddler Maria Natanson who is the star of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2016
Flying into Mystery
Bowed but definitely not beaten by pandemic isolation, Moore responds with one of his finest offerings in years. Flying into...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2022
