Reviews
Strange Birds in Paradise
Subtitled A West Papuan Soundtrack: Music Can Rise Above Tyranny, this recording provides the audio backing to a recent documentary...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Star Feminine Band
Coming at you like an epic puppy stampede is the Star Feminine Band, a seven-strong group of Beninese girls whose...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: January/2021
Traces from an Old Vineyard
The first time I heard the subtle Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat was via a CD playing at Lorca, an artists’...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Apr/May/2015
Homing In
This is the second album by the poet Ian McMillan and his orchestra – five musicians led by accordion player...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2011
Ritual Sonoro
How far can you fuse without creating the musical equivalent of brown plasticine? Andalusian singer-songwriter and musician Amparo Sánchez (aka...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2025
New Voices
One of the finest of Finnish accordionists, Markku Lepistö plays with all the elegance and grace of a chamber musician...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
The Griot's Craft
The previous solo album from the Bembeya Jazz/Africando singer and voice of Guinea to receive an international release was Sinikan,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2013
Escape Plan
Since first hearing Thornato’s edits of dancehall and Afro-Colombian folk music in the early 2010s, it’s remarkable how his MO...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2020
Siberia Extreme
Chyskyyrai, Tim Hodgkinson & Ken Hyder
A unique offering of what at first sounds like it could be experimental field recordings from the northernmost republic of...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: May/2020
Jara en el Camino
Catalonia's relationship with the rest of Spain is complicated, to say the least. There are many Catalonians who view themselves...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2015
