Reviews

Finno-Balkan Voices

Finno-Balkan Voices

Eight female vocalists – four Finnish, and four Bulgarian – meet here in a collaboration that stems from a course...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: June/2015

Embalo

Liana

When Liana first became known to a wider audience, it did not take an expert to spot a young girl...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2014

Hed

Kreiz Breizh Akademi #7

The seventh-born of the well-known Kreiz Breizh Akademi musical laboratory from Brittany, this collective is based on the famous tradition...

Reviewed by Anne Ge in issue: March/2020

El Fabuloso Sonido De Andrés Vargas Pinedo

Andrés Vargas Pinedo

The Peruvian Amazon was a hotbed of music in the 60s and 70s, but this collection makes it clear that...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2021

Chewing the Fat

James Patrick Gavin

There are ambitious debut albums and there is Chewing the Fat. In this first solo record, London-based Irish violinist James...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2018

Amplexo

Inês de Vasconcellos

What does it currently take to stand out from the massive crowd of new fadistas that keeps growing by the...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2022

Ghazalaw

Ghazalaw

A series of mash-ups might seem like a flimsy basis for an album, but on Ghazalaw's debut a prince among...

Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: November/2015

The Best of the SABC Years

Irene Mawela

Starting her career in the 1950s, Irene Mawela wrote songs for the Dark City Sisters and the Mahotella Queens, was...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2019

Transatlantic Sessions Series 6, Volume One

VARIOUS ARTISTS

What started nearly two decades ago as an elegantly simple idea for a TV show – gather together some excellent...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2014

Hawniyaz

Hawniyaz

This is one of the projects born of Osnabrück's remarkable Morgenland Festival, which specialises in Near and Middle Eastern music....

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2017