Reviews
Gamelan of Java Volume One: Kraton Kasunanan
Not content with overseeing Felmay's series of recordings, John Noise Manis – aka the Italian composer Giovanni Sciarrino (manis is...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: July/2010
The Lost Words: Spell Songs
Spell Songs made its stage debut earlier this year, its music sprung from the ‘spell songs’ of nature writer Robert...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
La Alianza Profana
There is little difference between the way Dengue Dengue Dengue! make music and the way A Guy Called Gerald or...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2013
Les Racines
As the son of one of the world’s greatest ever musicians, it’s understandable that Vieux Farka Touré has spent his...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2022
Luys i Luso
Tigran Hamasyan & the Yerevan State Chamber Choir
The supreme art form in Armenian culture is, I would argue, its ecclesiastical architecture. Those rugged churches with conical domes...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2015
Pre’volution: Le Président, ma Moto et Moi
In October 2014, the people of Burkina Faso took to the streets to demand the removal of Blaise Compaoré, the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2016
Recycle
Founded in 2006, Hungary's Cimbaliband are a surefire festival hit. Centred on the larger-than-life cimbalom player Balázs Unger, they are...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2017
Another World of Okinawan Music
On her debut, Okinawan musician Mutsumi reimagines the soundscapes of her native island as an electro-acoustic experience. Having studied with...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2021
Live at the Floodgate
Pulling off a live album can be tricky; the sound can be inferior to a studio record and it is...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: January/February/2022
Songs of the Spanish Civil War Vols 1 & 2
Just as Western countries have today banned their subjects from travelling to fight in Syria, in the 1930s the US...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2015
