Reviews
Svod: Traditional Songs from Serbia and the Balkans
Bilja Krstic & Bistrik Orchestra
ARC Music is developing into one of the foremost record labels releasing new Balkan recordings – having issued excellent efforts...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2017
Exil-Exile
Kyriakos Kalaitzidis & En Chordais
I've had time for composer and oud player Kyriakos Kalaitzidis since I first encountered his ensemble/record label En Chordais in...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Aynama-Rtama
This is a groundbreaking recording. We’re well used to hearing fusions of Arab and Western popular music as pretty one-sided...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: October/2015
Pools of Light
It's immediately apparent that Jessica Moss, former violinist of art-rock indie band Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra, knows her...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: July/2017
Talea
This enormous, virtuosic set is a collage from Paolo Angeli's solo dates – over 60 of them – performed across...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: October/2017
Nagham Fi Hayati
Born in Syria in 1910, Farid El Atrache was an icon of 20th-century Arab music and culture. Having moved to...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2023
All of This Is Chance
Fresh from signing off Peaky Blinders with a cover of Bob Dylan's ‘All the Tired Horses’, O’Neill returns to her...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2023
Traditional Greenlandic Music Vol 1-5 (1906-1989)
This impressive edition was compiled by the ethnomusicologist Michael Hauser and Karsten Sommer, a well-known figure in Greenland's music industry....
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2016
Simultaneous Flight Movement
One musician, a violin, a recorder and a lighthouse are hardly the typical ingredients of an album. Laura Cannell's Simultaneous...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2017
