Reviews
3 for Joy
Maddy Prior with Hannah James & Giles Lewin
This is a true meeting of generations. Maddy Prior has a 40-year career behind her. Violinist and piper Giles Lewin...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
Risplendenti, Riversi
Nataša Mirkovic & Michel Godard
Bosnian-born Nataša Mirković has been exploring the borderlands between early music and Balkan melodies for some years. Both categories are...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: May/2021
Trovaores
Antonio Placer Sextet & Antonio Campos
Antonio Placer is a Galician singer, poet and songwriter who describes himself as ‘exiled’ in France. Trovaores, his latest release...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: March/2021
Ndiarigne
In his native Senegal, Batch Gueye performed mainly as a dancer, but since moving to Bristol, he has honed his...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
A Retrospective
Pink Martini | Pink Martini & Saori Yuki
‘If the United Nations had a house band in 1962, hopefully we’d be that band,’ commented Thomas Lauderdale, bandleader of...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
The Art of the Geomungo Sanjo
This reviewer must admit to being a big fan of sanjo, the extended, almost jazzy Korean instrumental genre. It typically...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: July/2013
Bamako Today
The BKO Quintet consist of four Malians and one French musician; they play traditional Malian music with a modern twist....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
La Giostra
Kërkim (Albanian for ‘Research’) is an Apulian five-piece outfit augmented with a few guests. The result might be wrongly filed...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2021
Amina
Three years ago I reviewed Amerli, by a collection of 20 instrumentalists and singers from Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
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
