Reviews
Esfahan
Faraz Entessari & Fabio Tricomi
This new album of Iranian classical music features Faraz Entessari on tar (long-necked lute), accompanied by Fabio Tricomi on various...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2013
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Patagonia (OST)
How do you get Carlos Gardél, Duffy and Bryn Terfel into the same box? By making an awful film about...
Reviewed by Chris Mos in issue: July/2011
Sun Gong/Bring on the Sun
Four decades ago, zitherist Edward Larry Gordon made his debut on a small US label. Then, renamed Laraaji, he collaborated...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: June/2018
Hidden People
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Hidden People is a neat title for Kathryn Roberts and her husband Sean Lakeman’s debut album. Both were well-known before...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Synthetic Hearts
Asanda Lusaseni Mvana, better known by her performing name Msaki, won Female Artist of the Year at the South African...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2023
Do Claro ao Breu
Sopa de Pedra are a Portuguese vocal ten-piece that got together ten years ago – which some may know already...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2022
Awake
There are some beautiful songs opening the second album by this folk duo, building on the impact of their debut...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018
Istanbul: Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723)
Inhabiting that intriguing territory between ‘early music’ and ‘ world music ’ Istanbul highlights the repertoire of the 18th century...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Apr/May/2010
21 Spices
Trilok Gurtu with Simon Phillips & NDR Big Band
Setting aside his wonderfully adventurous series of world music fusions, 21 Spices finds Trilok Gurtu returning to his early jazz...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2011
The Original Sound of Cumbia
These two generous CDs of Colombian cumbia, remastered from 78s, 45s and 33rpm LPs, are glorious. The subtitle, The History...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
