Reviews

Agôra

Caixa Cubo

This prolific world-jazz trio from São Paulo boosted their profile in 2020 with a BBC 6 Music Album of the...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2023

Deò

Beinn Lee

On ‘Anam Saor’, the first single from this, their second album, Uist sextet Beinn Lee talk about finding their place...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2022

Tani

Fanfaraï

Since 2005, percussionist Samir Inal has navigated the treacherous waters between North Africa and France with dexterity. His commingling of...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2016

Air Iomall

Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach

This is the kind of album that leaves you wanting to hear the whole CD again immediately without having to...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: October/2019

The Smoky Smirr o Rain

Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola

The air is filled with moisture as you gaze out over the shores of a Scottish loch, a Norwegian fjord...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2021

Lai Māsiņa Rotājās!

Auļi

Subtlety is the last thing you might expect from a band of massed bagpipers, accompanied by serried drums including ‘one...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2018

Bhutan Himalaya: Folk Music from Bhutan

Jigme Drukpa

This album seems to hark back to earlier, more simple times. Bhutan, bordering India and Tibet, conjures up images of...

Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: May/2017

Diivan Jäljet

Johanna Juhola

The Finnish accordionist Johanna Juhola is a Björk-like figure: enigmatic, daring, witty, unpredictable, warm, passionate and utterly brilliant. She's been...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2018

Dai Raft

Hamid Sakhizada

When Afghan Hazara musician Hamid Sakhizada fled his country and moved to Norway in 2016, he found not only a...

Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: March/2020

Timeline

Suarasama

Suarasama, which means ‘one voice’, is a small ensemble of musicians and ethnomusicologists from North Sumatra. Formed in 1995 by...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: June/2023