Reviews
Elegant Pipa Classics: Wu Man’s New Renditions of Ancient Melodies
Here are ‘elegant’ pipa (Chinese lute) classics, which are in the main calm and meditative. But what a title! Traditional...
Reviewed by Frank Kouwenhoven in issue: October/2013
Rais
Tambu music from Curaçao is a drum-based genre that has incredible significance for the islanders. It is a particularly social...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2018
Hole in the Universe
The banality of bureaucracy is not an exciting subject for a song but put through the creative mangle that is...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2012
Music is Choice
A trio that existed from 1998 to 2005, New Zealand's Trinity Roots were local heroes who opened the door for...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Dombra from Kazakhstan
From Turkey, through Central Asia, to Xinjiang in China, the various Turkicspeaking peoples play a whole range of longnecked lutes...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Clarion
Paul Hutchinson, half of the fabulous Belshazzar's Feast, teams up here with clarinettist Karen Wimhurst from the world of contemporary...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2016
Almah
Bassist Avishai Cohen is one of those rare jazz musicians who is comfortable playing across multiple genres, and he has...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Apr/May/2014
Llinyn Arian
The Jenkins family are heavyweights of the Welsh folk scene, and this partnership is akin to the mother and daughter...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Inside Llewyn Davis
If there is a precedent for promoting a soundtrack in a similar way to the campaign for the forthcoming movie...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Pandiyé
The daughter of the lead singer of the highly revered and innovative band Ziskakan, vocalist Maya Kamaty put forward her...
Reviewed by Tim Clarke-Romain in issue: April/2020
