Reviews
The Bird of a Thousand Voices
Tigran Hamasyan | Tigran Hamasyan & the Yerevan State Chamber Choir
Pianist and composer Hamasyan certainly has his admirers and his album Luys i Luso with the Yerevan State Chamber Choir...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2024
The Art of Mandolin
First things first: Simon Mayor is an extraordinarily talented mandolin player. He is clearly a little obsessed: the CD booklet...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2014
Whiskey Cambodia
For their third album, Cambodian Space Project have traversed the Pacific and landed in the Motor City, to team up...
Reviewed by Edward Craggs in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Kosmopolítēs
How global do you like to take your grooves? Mexican DJ Danochilango and Colombian singer and musician Mambe style themselves...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2019
Pass the Knowledge
While Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert takes credit for coining the word reggae, and Bob Marley is widely considered reggae’s only true...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
En Mi Piel
Flamenco artists continue to coin new genres. The Mallorca-born African gitana Concha Buika takes flamenco’s pained message and impassioned spirit...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012
Afro Futuristic Dreams
Ever since the Strut label resurrected their career, Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids have produced some of the most compelling...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2023
Long Journey Home – A Century After The 1925 Mountain City Fiddlers Convention
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
John McCutcheon is known for his concept albums paying homage to folks like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. His new...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: December/2025
Early Congo Music 1946-1962: First Rumba, to the Real Rumba
Early Congo Music 1946-1962 has been compiled and annotated by Japanese collector Yoshiki Fukasawa. His unusual sub-title comes from the...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2019
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Through That Sound (My Secret Was Made Known)
A seagull's head on dancer's legs – not at all disturbing or Hieronymous Bosch-like – is artist Kirsty Whiten's cover...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2020
