Reviews
Ke Haber
Israeli artist ‘Nani’ Noam Vazana sings and writes in Ladino, a Romance language spoken by Spanish Jews in the 15th...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/February/2022
The Tambourine Man
Xabier Diaz & Adufeiras de Salitre
A soft shake of the tambourine and a lonely drumbeat introduce ‘Xota Delira’, the opening track on this daring experiment...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2016
Sandwood
Following on from two major artistic endeavours in recent years – the award-winning, multi-media project Kin and his Strathglass Trilogy...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: April/2018
Aguilas and Cobras
Stateside Latin funk often comes with psychedelic guitar chords, sexy vocals, big slabs of Yankee rock weirdness, and hot rhythms...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2010
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
Live at the Bimhuis
Arifa are a band that are hard to define – four musicians from Turkey, Romania, Greece and Germany, resident in...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2015
Rockland
As I write this, I have absolutely no idea in which section of the reviews pages Rockland should feature. Katzenjammer...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2015
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
