Reviews
Kelmti Horra
Is this the sound of post-revolutionary Tunisia? Perhaps. Certainly it is a self-assured, outward-looking and proudly individual debut from a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012
Hether Blether
Named after one of the vanishing islands from his native Orkney's folklore, the final album in composer Erland Cooper's trilogy...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: July/2020
Guerra
Spirited trumpeter, composer and director Cesare Dell'Anna's GirodiBanda is a multifaceted beast, comprising more than 30 musicians including some leading...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: May/2019
Follow Them True
Anyone who has seen Stick in the Wheel live recently will know just what a diamond-hard machine they have become....
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2018
What Pan Did for Me
Visitors to Port of Spain's legendary carnival will recall Panorama, the steel band competition at which bands – some up...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: November/2015
Zivo
On the new release from neo-rebetika outfit Trio Tekke, they have teamed up with drummer Dave de Rose to give...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2017
The Makovecz Tour
Violinist Félix Lajkó is pretty well known in Hungary, but not so much outside – despite being one of the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
Not so much world music as otherworldly, the reissue of the album Brian Eno produced in 1980 for the American...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Tasca Beat
It’s little wonder that it took almost ten years for OqueStrada to release their first album. It wasn’t a question...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2010
