Reviews
Badinyaa Kumoo
Long respected as the first internationally successful female kora player, it is more than a decade since Sona Jobarteh's last...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2022
My Seven-String Chadyghan: Songs from the Khahas North
The chadyghan is a long wooden box of a zither, exquisitely played here by Khakassian singer and instrumentalist Yulia Charkova...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: Apr/May/2012
Opérette Volume 2
The subtitle of this delightful album, Chansons Marseillaises 1930-1940, suggests no obvious Jamaican link. Yet Moussu T was initially inspired...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2018
Hugsjá
In 2014, Norway's Ivar Bjørnson and Einar Selvik were commissioned to create an album to mark the 200th anniversary of...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: November/2018
More Than a Little
Nashville-based husband and wife duo Adrian and Meredith Krygowski are supported by a full-fat seven-piece band for their often-riotous debut...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: May/2017
Echoes of the Mountains
This and several other new recordings are a collaboration between the Canadian label Analekta and the Centre des Musiciens du...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2021
Folk Music of China Vol 7: Folk Songs of the Yi and Qiang Tribes in Sichuan & Yunnan
This might not be an easy-listening album, but it takes one on a rare cultural tour to hear the music...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
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
