Reviews
L’Ombre de la Bête
François Robin & Mathias Delplanque
François Robin has been exploring electro-acoustic sounds for nearly 15 years. While his is a multi-instrumentalist, his instrument of choice...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: October/2022
We be All Africans
Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids
African-American jazz musicians were undoubtedly the pioneers of what's become known as world music. In the 1950s, Dizzy Gillespie's music...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2016
The World of Traditional Music
Alongside Nonesuch's Explorer series, Ocora is perhaps the most important mother lode of authentic 20th-century field recordings of world music....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2018
Back to Sustain
Like a light hike on an easy trail on a sunny spring afternoon, The Pine Hearts' fourth studio album doesn't...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020
Coup of Gods
Yet again risking imprisonment in his native Iran for releasing this album, Mehdi Rajabian’s latest effort showcases Persian tonalities, a...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2022
Sixth Sense
The Taal Tantra Experience with Tanmoy Bose
This is Taal Tantra’s second album, in which Indian and German musicians combine raga and jazz, fusing European and Indian...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Round 2
From the first notes this sounds like Nobel Prize material, if the committee ever decided that making people dance deserved...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
In Good Company
Within the first couple of minutes of listening to the first track on In Good Company, bluegrass aficionados and banjo...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2012
Latin Noir: Everything Happens on the Beach
Noir and ‘beach’: two of the great clichés of cultural revisionism. The chamamé rhythms of Chango Spasiuk, Carlos Puebla’s song...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2013
Tobar an Cheoil
Two of the purest voices in Irish traditional music – the harp and the flute – combine to beguiling effect on...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2022
