Reviews
Balkantron
Many casual listeners today tend to think any music from Eastern Europe is Balkan – which sees even Gogol Bordello...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
El Terreno
Jacob Gurevitsch makes sure to stress he is not a flamenco musician – in spite of often being presented as...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2024
Rebuilding
Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington
In a move away from their usual collaborative format (James has played on and produced Jake’s last two albums), these...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: February/March/2026
Le Chat Brel
French violinist Gabriel Bismut met Italian accordion player Maurizio Minardi while playing jazz in Paris four years ago. They discovered...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2020
Missing Chapters
Unique Cameroonian singer-songwritercum-stylist Moken follows up 2016's Chapters of My Life with Missing Chapters. He's in Atlanta, Georgia, having transplanted...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2019
On the Spot
The Hot 8 Brass Band have experienced more hard times than most of us can ever imagine: gun-toting gangs and...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2017
Blue Maqams
This is a gently exquisite album, in which the finest and most innovative oud (lute) player and composer in Tunisia...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Fly Down Little Bird
Mike Seeger was widely mourned when he passed away in August 2009, aged 75. While not as famous as his...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2011
Release the Penguins
Flamenco, jazz and Gypsy swing mingle together in the world of the TG Collective, a guitar-led sextet from a British...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2012
Color
Essentially this is a fusion album of French accordion café music with a Congolese slant. Papa Noel is a veteran...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Apr/May/2014
