Reviews
Nowhere and Everywhere
Paul Smith, of Maxïmo Park, met Rachel Unthank, of The Unthanks, when both played an Africa Express concert. Collaboration between...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2023
Un Hombre de Buenos Aires
Jazz and tango had parallel evolutions, emerging in marginalised areas, gravitating to their respective centres and then going global. When...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2024
Moonshine
Initially a pioneer in electronic dance music with a specific Egyptian flavour, culminating in a perfect synthesis with shaabi and...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: November/2023
Toc de Crida
Every musician that picks up on tradition sooner or later must decide whether they try to stay true to an...
Reviewed by Goncalo Frota in issue: April/2024
Intizar
Mohammad Motamedi & Rembrandt Trio
When I visited the national Fajr Music Festival in Tehran for the first time, I walked into a performance by...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: April/2024
Ankomst
A prize–winning folk fiddler, Gjermund Larsen is a top–notch musician and can clearly do whatever he wants to on the...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Apr/May/2010
Forest Bathing
The partnership of violinist Heather Trost and accordion and percussionist Jeremy Barnes has moved from indie-leaning beginnings through to fully...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: June/2018
Nimissa
This brave and original kora rock band from Guinea have made both startlingly extraordinary and some plainly nondescript albums, but...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: July/2012
Café Musique
A kind of one-man Cape Verdean chamber group, Rufino Almeida (also known as Bau), has plucked a steady course through...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2010
The Art of the Cheolhyeongeum Sanjo
Sanjo is a popular Korean folk-art genre that builds as a sequence of movements, beginning slow and emotional, gradually increasing...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2016
