Reviews
Fall in Mountains
What's striking about this album is how different it is from any other music currently coming out of Poland. It's...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2014
Tebourba
Fanfara Station may sound like the name of one of the Balkan brass bands they so clearly admire, but in...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2018
Mo Ashibi Magic: Live in Tokyo 1999
Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman
Okinawan singer, guitarist and sanshin player Takashi Hirayasu and world music nomad Bob Brozman came together in 1999 to record...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Sol Aurorae
Here Cypriot vocalist and percussionist Vassilis Philippou has put together an excellent first album, embedded firmly in the traditions of...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: May/2021
The Sacred Lute
Nour Ali Elahi (1895-1975) deserves to be much better known than he is. The fact that he has just been...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2015
Kjeringe i Snodrevet
The langeleik is one of the more unusual members of an instrumental family that can be loosely described as ‘plank...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Inconceivable Mazurkas
This is a real find: a remarkable family trio comprising Jan Malisz and his two children,12-year-old Zuzanna and 16-year-old Kacper,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2015
Né La Thiass
Remastered and reissued for this year's Record Store Day in April, and now available on vinyl as well as on...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2018
Hunger of the Skin
Hunger of the Skin finds Flook flautist Brian Finnegan putting COVID-19 lockdown purdah to scintillating use with a firing-on-all-cylinders set....
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2021
