Reviews
Not Our First Goat Rodeo
Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan & Edgar Meyer
It's almost a decade since the adventurous classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma teamed up with bluegrass fiddle/banjo player Stuart Duncan, double...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020
Yidishe Lider
Yidishe Lider is the fruit of an extraordinary project to honour the life and work of Arkady Gendler, who was...
Reviewed by Helen Beer in issue: June/2013
Someday the Heart Will Trouble the Mind
The 13-track setlist for Someday the Heart Will Trouble the Mind, which was recorded live in the Watershed Productions studio...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2016
OberTany
Zawierucha are a new Polish folk band whose name translates as ‘Turmoil/Storm’. With two violins, double bass and a drum...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
This Appearing World
Marilyn Crispell, Richard Nunns & Jeff Henderson
This adventurous collaborative recording teams American avant– garde pianist and composer Marilyn Crispell with two Kiwis – reed player Jeff...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2013
The Woman at the End of the World
Elza Soares has been one of Brazil's most controversial samba singers ever since her career began in the late 1950s,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2016
Hali Diallo
For a lot of Touareg desert blues, the drums are the well of rhythm in the undergrowth of the music,...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: April/2019
Characters
Flo Perlin may cite diverse musical influences, given her extensive world travel and her Iraqi and Belarusian heritage, but in...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: October/2021
