Reviews
Una y Otra Vez
Bruno Garcia is very much of the school of Manu Chao: a punk rocker in Paris in the 1980s of...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2011
Qanat
Misagh Joolaee & Sebastian Flaig
A collaboration between Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle) player Misagh Joolaee and German percussionist Sebastian Flaig, this album explores new instrumental...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/September/2022
Flaco JimÉnez/Buena Suerte, Señorita
Flaco JimÉnez is, at least in Texas, accordion royalty; his late father and brother are also acknowledged masters of the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Awal Mara
Having made his first instrument as a boy from a tin can and old bicycle brake cables, the blind Moroccan...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2010
Marni: Music for Slow Television
This is the soundtrack to a fascinating two-and-a-half hour observational documentary that chronicles the painting of a large intricate work,...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2021
Till Skogen
Climate change, pandemics, wars… there’s an urgent need to raise people’s spirits, so the joy and optimism of Kolonien’s Till...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: June/2022
Tuz (Salt)
Cengiz Özkan's eighth album for Kalan, Tuz (Salt), is a lovely collection of ten Turkish folk songs. The album is...
Reviewed by Nick Hobbs in issue: October/2023
Noir Anima
Labelle is Jérémy Labelle, from La Réunion. On this third solo album he’s set out to formulate the fledgling genre...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2023
