Reviews
Knee-Deep in Heaven
Led by fiddler Janusz Prusinowski, this trio are the leading group behind the revival of traditional music in Poland. The...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2014
Chakras & 5 Elements
This album devised by French avant-garde composer and multi-disciplinary artist Pierre Redon, explores connections between sound and healing. Several designated...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: April/2021
Galata
Orchestra Bailam e Compagnia di Canto Trallalero
This is an intriguing imaginary musical journey. From the Middle Ages onwards, merchants from the Republic of Genoa established trading...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Quaranta
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
Quaranta, CGS's new release, celebrates four decades of the group's existence. It is awe-inspiring, stirring and soulful; with an array...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2015
Call of the Blues
After meeting at a festival in Mumbai in 2013, the British guitarist Michael Messer and Manish Pingle, who plays the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2016
Welcome Marhaba
Soldiering on, decades after the demise of role models Carte de Sejour (Rachid Taha's old band), Zen Zila is perhaps...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Musics from Nyanza
This double-CD set is one of the most recent releases of the ever-impeccable Ocora Radio France label. Continuing the French...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2016
The Wife of Urban Law
This splendid set from fiddler Peter Knight, with guitarist Roger Flack and percussionist Sacha Trochet, oozes confidence from the start,...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Maghera Pony
This disc is a bit of an oddity, but is none the worse for it. Matthew Noone is an Australian-born...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
