Reviews
Neon Fields
The Polish group Transkapela, led by cimbały (cimbalom) player Robert Wasilewski, has received strong commendations in this magazine for their...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2015
The HillBenders
A few years ago, I was privy to the world premiere of The HillBenders' ‘bluegrass opry’ take on The Who's...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2019
Afterglow
After Bellowhead disbanded in 2016, Jon Boden set about regrouping his band The Remnant Kings to record Afterglow, with fellow...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2017
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Holdvilágos (In the Moonlight)
Napra is a Hungarian folk band that deserves to be heard. They bring a rock attitude to traditional music with...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Touristes
Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin
The Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and the 25-year-old American singer Julia Easterlin met in New York in 2014 when...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2015
Balka Sound
A rare vinyl copy of Balka Sound’s 1984 album Afro Musik Creation is currently on offer at $275 on the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023
Serbian War Songs
Zeitkratzer, Svetlana Spajic, Dragana Tomic & Obrad Milic
This extraordinary, uncompromising and intense collaboration between Berlin-based hyper-contemporary ensemble Zeitkratzer and a few singers specialising in traditional Serbian-language folklore...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: November/2018
Break the Dawn
iyatraQuartet fuse Western with Indian classical and Arabic traditions, with the four players - violinist Alice Barron, who studied Karnatic...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020
Del Cuarto Rojo: Homenaje Sonoro Escuchando la Pintura de Rafael Hastings
Peruvian percussionist Manongo Mujica has always been partial to experimentation, as was clear in his work with the influential jazz...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: August/September/2022
Medicine Man Orchestra
An unlikely sonic collision, Medicine Man Orchestra brings together the divergent universes of electronic sound design (Alissa Syllah), West African...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: March/2021
