Reviews
Amaratch Musica
EthioSonic is the sister series to Ethiopiques, documenting modern Ethiopian influenced sounds from around the globe, no matter whether it’s...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Apr/May/2013
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Őszi Vázlatok (Live)
The Hungarian group Tárkány Müvek, led by cimbalom player Bálint Tárkány-Kovács have been going about five years, playing inventive folk-meets-jazz...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Amonafi
Right from the opening track, ‘Woyoyoye’, a slice of the Afro-pop perfection Daby Touré is known for, it is clear...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2015
Bend Skin Beats
Blind singer-guitarist André Marie Tala is a veteran of modern Cameroonian music. Some of his earliest recordings were arranged by...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Why the Mountains are Black: Primeval Greek Village Music 1907-1960
In early 1980s Epirus (Greece), I learned of a University of Washington musicologist engaged in fieldwork for a PhD on...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: May/2016
Öngtupqa: Sacred Music of the Hopi Tribe
Clark Tenakhongva, Gary Stroutsos & Matthew Nelson
Öngtupqa is the Hopi name for the Grand Canyon (which translates to ‘Salt Canyon’). Musicians Clark Tenakhongva, Matthew Nelson and...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: November/2019
Handfuls of Night
There are multiple associations that weave around this fourth studio album from Penguin Cafe, Arthur Jefes' successor ensemble to his...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Palimpsest
For their third album, Three Cane Whale eschew their previous in-the-field approach to recording – an 18th-century Bristol church for...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2016
Jamaica: Rhythm & Blues 1956-1961
The years 1956 and 1961 brought two key events to Jamaica’s musical history. The dates also provide well chosen bookends...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Hà Noi Duo
French guitarist Nguyên Lê and Vietnamese singer and multi-instrumentalist Ngô Hong Quang take the clash of the modern and traditional...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2017
