Reviews
RAMU
Although it's named after the Random Access Musical Universe (RAMU) sampling database that he created, what former Grateful Dead drummer...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2018
Nordic Raga
Jyotsna Srikanth, Mats Edén, Dan Svensson & Pär Moberg
The fiddle traditions of Sweden and southern India are both long established but are as far apart, musically and...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: May/2018
Sleeping Giants
Formed by violinist/bandleader Olivia Moore, Unfurl is a Manchester-based collective that draws upon contemporary jazz and Indian classical music, partially...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2022
Guitars From Agadez Vol 3
When Tinariwen stormed the citadel of the mainstream music industry, a wave of guitar-toting Touaregs followed in their wake, picking...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: March/2012
Tango Roto Live
Johanna Juhola has earned herself a reputation as one of the finest Finnish accordionists to emerge in recent years: a...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Apr/May/2011
Curao
Quantic has been working with Nidia Góngora since 2011. The Colombian singer and Grupo Canalón de Timbiqui bandleader has popped...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2017
Afrique Mon Désir
Laurinda Hofmeyr, Afrique mon Désir Ensemble & Régis Gizavo & #9;
For more than two decades, Laurinda Hofmeyr has specialised in setting the poetry of her native South Africa to music....
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2018
The Living World's Demands
As a first-generation Punjabi-American from Baltimore, Ami Dang uses sitar, voice and electronics to carve a complex identity. She deals...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2022
In Transition
This is a very welcome return by the Thessaloniki-based group Loxandra. This recording has many of the features that made...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2018
150 Voices
Sklamberg is best-known as the vocalist of The Klezmatics and an excellent Yiddish (and English) singer. Siberian-born Shepherd is also...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2020
