Reviews
The Encounter of Vocal Heritage
Migrancy is an inescapable condition of our time, and people in movement to strange places carry remembrances of home with...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2017
Byzaanchy
Choduraa Tumat is one of Tyva’s finest female khöömeizhi (master throat singers), being leader of the group Tyva Kyzy, but...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: March/2022
Ikon: The Best of Gregory Isaacs, The Cool Ruler
Few Jamaican vocalists hold as much emotional power as Gregory Isaacs, whose haunting sadness reflected a life of not-quite-fame, unlucky...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Synaesthesia
Synaesthesia is a new release from the Lush Spa/ECC partnership, led by Simon Emmerson, who's lived in Dorset for the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
One With the Beloved
Oh dear. On paper, Shervin Boloorian ticks the right boxes. He's a refugee from Iran, raised in the UK, with...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Blue Tsapiky
Claude Teta is a guitarist and vocalist from Madagascar and here he is joined by a singer called Kirasoa, who...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Africa Express Presents: Maison des Jeunes
It was always going to be interesting to see how Damon Albarn’s Africa Express project would translate to the recording...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2014
Grey Falcon
Svetlana Spajic has been researching and performing the village music of Serbs in Serbia itself and further afield for many...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Apr/May/2013
Power in the Blood
Buffy Sainte-Marie, now 74 and into her 51st year as a recording artist, was born in Canada to Cree parents....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Russian Folksongs in the Key of Sadness
Evgeny Masloboev & Anastasia Masloboeva
Leo Records, which has released artists such as Sun Ra, Evan ParkerandArt Ensemble of Chicago, has long been an important...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
