Reviews
Pace of Mind
Continuing to incorporate new sounds into their experimental jazz, the award-winning Belgian trio Slang have teamed up with sitar prodigy...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: July/2015
Mbira Korositina
Chartwell Dutiro & Mike Parnell
Chartwell Dutiro is a well-known mbira (thumb piano) player, a former member of Thomas Mapfumo's group, and a teacher of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
365, Vol 1
Recent years have seen several traditional musicians giving themselves new year's resolutions to record a folk song a day, or...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: June/2018
Salone
The Kondi Band teams the blind Sierra Leonean thumb piano player and vocalist Sorie Kondi with the US producer and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2017
Achai
Although throat singing exists in many parts of the world (there's even a throat singing tradition among the Thembu Xhosa...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: December/2016
Redaction
Although a Pākehā (New Zealander of European descent), ethnomusicologist Dr Richard Nunns is a leading authority on taonga pūoro, a...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2015
Griot Blues
Mighty Mo Rodgers & Baba Sissoko
The septuagenarian black American bluesman Mighty Mo Rodgers and the Malian griot Baba Sissoko met on tour in Lithuania in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2018
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Juan Zou De Ren (He Who Travels Far)
The second album from Hanggai, the Beijing-based Mongolian folk-rock band, pioneers of the ‘China-grass’ scene, sees them coming of age....
Reviewed by Rachel Harris in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
