Reviews
Songs from Home
There are three Polish women at the heart of Toronto-based band Polky, and Songs from Home refers both to their...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2021
Songs from the River Wind
Singer-songwriter and activist Eliza Gilkyson follows up her politically charged 2020 release titled, poignantly enough, 2020, with a collection of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2022
Heal & Harrow
At a time when there is a movement afoot to pardon the 4,000 or so women who found themselves at...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2022
Neva/Harmony
A decade or so ago a Turkish singer covering songs from the Balkans to Armenia through Greece and Turkey...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
What Heat
I did a double-take upon hearing that the world-fusion group Bokanté was planning a project with the Metropole Orkest. Already...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2018
Mi Herencia
New York City has been tapping into Colombian music fever for several years now, what with festivals such as Encuentro...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2022
Indonesia: Songs from the Islands of Flores &Solor
Flores and Solor are part of a chain of narrow volcanic islands located just west of Timor Leste, the administrative...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: March/2011
Néo
The title of this recording, the first album of original compositions by Japanese-American instrumentalist Kaoru Watanabe, can loosely be translated...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2016
Uprooted
Given Minor Empire's mesmeric sound, it's a shame it's taken so long for a follow-up to their 2011 debut, Second...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: May/2018
The Kankobela of the Batonga Vol 1
Once fishermen and farmers on the rich alluvial banks of the Zambezi, the Batonga were driven at gun¬point from their...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: March/2010
