Reviews
A Thousand Cranes
Çiğdem Aslan is a Turkish-born, Hackney-based singer who first came to my attention when she joined She’Koyokh, the fabulous Balkan...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Rise Up
Award-winning Celtic five-piece The Outside Track have a strong pedigree for a band that live in different countries. They've got...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2019
Éthiopiques 24: Golden Years of Ethiopian Music 1969-1975
If the news that there are two new volumes of the magnificent, hugely influential and spectacularly long– running Ethiopiques series...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: Apr/May/2010
Turas
Now this is interesting. A collaboration between Swedish multi-instrumentalist Marit Fält and Oban-born fiddler Rona Wilkie, BBC Scotland's Young Traditional...
Reviewed by Graeme Thomson in issue: Apr/May/2014
Balkan Spirit
In the line of his previous productions, Jordi Savall’s Balkan Spirit covers another area of great musical traditions and intercultural...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Calm Abiding: Guided Meditations & Sacred Buddhist Prayers
Calm Abiding is a timely collaboration between the Tashi Lhunpo Monks and meditation expert Shan Tate. The first three tracks,...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: November/2019
Fanfare Latino Roots
If the French name of this largely Colombian brass banda seems odd, you should know they’re a group of more...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2015
Intercosmic
I sometimes recall a faintly surreal encounter outside the Bosnian city of Mostar, a few years after the war, in...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2022
Still Getting Away With It
Taking the time out from his duo with Irish harper Máire Ni Chathasaigh and their quartet with Arty McGlynn and...
Reviewed by Jon Mitchell in issue: March/2011
