Reviews
Rendhagyó Prímástalálkozó II
A few years ago there was a great recording of Hungarian music called Primás Parade on Folk Europa records, which...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Music from Greece
In the summer of 1979, Greek folk singer Domna Samiou (1928-2012) toured Sweden (with a band and dance troupe) performing...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Ela Ela
This is a Franco-Malagasy fusion led by Berikely who sings and plays the kabossy (an acoustic box guitar with four...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2022
Strong
As Iness Mezel's album opens she is very much mistress of her own funk-rock-fusion domain. Her powerful, heavily reverbed voice...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2015
Mortissa
Readers may already be familiar with Çigdem Aslan, as she’s lead singer with She’koyokh, the fabulous London-based Balkan klezmer ensemble....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Dr Strangedub (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Dub the Bomb)
This was supposedly written as a response to the ever-mushrooming sense of doom commonly experienced thanks to climate change, Trump,...
Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: April/2019
On Our Way
Based in Istanbul and led by the powerful singer, percussionist and composer Michal Elia Kamal (born in Israel to Iranian...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2023
Festival Flamenco Gitano
Imagine a time before the kaleidoscopic wonder of world music was available at the click of a mouse . Then...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Me Sijum Underground/I Am Underground
There's long been an underground Roma rap scene across Eastern Europe – in the late noughties Czech rapper GypsyCZ attracted...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Apr/May/2014
Hedûr: Solace of Time
If you have seen Aynur in Crossing the Bridge, the successful 2005 documentary by Fatih Akin about music in Istanbul,...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: July/2020
