Reviews
Curao
Quantic has been working with Nidia Góngora since 2011. The Colombian singer and Grupo Canalón de Timbiqui bandleader has popped...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2017
Afrique Mon Désir
Laurinda Hofmeyr, Afrique mon Désir Ensemble & Régis Gizavo & #9;
For more than two decades, Laurinda Hofmeyr has specialised in setting the poetry of her native South Africa to music....
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2018
The Living World's Demands
As a first-generation Punjabi-American from Baltimore, Ami Dang uses sitar, voice and electronics to carve a complex identity. She deals...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2022
In Transition
This is a very welcome return by the Thessaloniki-based group Loxandra. This recording has many of the features that made...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2018
150 Voices
Sklamberg is best-known as the vocalist of The Klezmatics and an excellent Yiddish (and English) singer. Siberian-born Shepherd is also...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2020
Ghost
In her first album of all-new material since 2010, Rusby plays a set of traditional and original songs loosely themed...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Festa!
North Carolinian Andrew Finn Magill is an incredibly polished and virtuosic violinist who has turned his bow to many genres...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Dominion
This quartet is the combination of two duos – Nancy Kerr and James Fagan with Richard and Jess Arrowsmith –...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Deva
Deva Premal is a German national who embraced Indian spirituality in 1990 when staying with the controversial guru Osho at...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Folk Music of China Vol 6: Folk Songs of China's Tajik & Russian Minorities
You would be forgiven for mistaking this album for one from the former Soviet Union. It is instead music by...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
