Reviews
The HillBenders
A few years ago, I was privy to the world premiere of The HillBenders' ‘bluegrass opry’ take on The Who's...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2019
Serbian War Songs
Zeitkratzer, Svetlana Spajic, Dragana Tomic & Obrad Milic
This extraordinary, uncompromising and intense collaboration between Berlin-based hyper-contemporary ensemble Zeitkratzer and a few singers specialising in traditional Serbian-language folklore...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: November/2018
Break the Dawn
iyatraQuartet fuse Western with Indian classical and Arabic traditions, with the four players - violinist Alice Barron, who studied Karnatic...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020
Thul’ubheke
What can you say about a new Soul Brothers record? Over umpteen albums and more than 40 years, the two...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2010
Jorjuna
Drawing on this Breton band's travels throughout Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Jorjuna is named after a ten-beat rhythm...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: June/2017
monmon
Ever since 1994, when he burst onto the world music scene with one of his landmark songs ‘Adékalom’, Danyèl Waro...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: August/2017
Unquenching Fire
As soon as you see the names Miranda Sykes and Hannah Martin together you’re excited. They have two of the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2022
Zik’r East/Zik’r West
Born in Morocco to Jewish parents and raised in Paris, Ruimy spent seven years as a banker and financier before...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2015
