Reviews
Aka Balkan Moon/AlefBa
Veteran Belgian fusionists Aka Moon started off experimenting with Central African polyrhythms and polyphonies. On this live double album, they...
Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: December/2015
City of Gold
With City of Gold, Molly Tuttle and producer/dobro guitar maestro Jerry Douglas have accomplished their self-appointed mission, which was to...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/September/2023
From Skopje With Love
This is an album whose appeal grows with repeated plays. Like many artists from the Balkans, vocalist Elena Hristova's first...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: August/September/2023
City of 1001 Windows
Welcome to the city of Berat, Albania, 2,400 years young, and welcoming, in its time, Roman, Slavic, Byzantine and Turkish...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2023
Some Mississippi Sunday Morning
Ever since the Lomaxes discovered Lead Belly in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1933, prison has earnt itself a vaunted...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2023
Y’Y
Those who have been to the Amazon find it deeply affecting, coming away with a desire to contribute in some...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: March/2024
All That Remained
If there was any naiveté on show in Lucidvox’s last album, We Are, it has surely been worn away by...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: March/2024
Digital Indigenous 05: Katula
Hailing from northern Malawi, this gospel choir began their recording career by accident when they began collecting money to build...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2024
soFa – Elsewhere CC
Billed as a ‘digger’s paradise for tropical gems,’ DJ soFa’s latest compilation spans 1972 to 2023, inspiring listeners to imagine...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: September/2024
Flamenco Mediterráneo
Carlos Coronado likes to establish a musical connection with landscape. Having been born in the Baix Empordà region of Catalonia,...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2024
