Reviews
papa JACA
Claudio Kron is a Brazilian percussionist and composer based in the UK, who grew up in Itabuna, a small town...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2013
Komme No Heim
If you don’t know your stev from your lokk, or your skillingsviser from your bygdevise, have No fear. Jon Anders...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Apr/May/2013
Dancylvania
The Baghdaddies are nothing if not eclectic. This Geordie five-piece with Mesopotamian overtones and a Balkan brass bedrock have weaved...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2010
Love Bollywood
There are 33 songs here, all wrapped up in a lipstick-red case, and all but two of them were recorded...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2011
Aduna
Malick Pathé Sow & Bao Sissoko
There has been a glut of recent albums featuring American and European musicians collaborating with their West African counterparts. Nobody...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Last Band Standing
Who says you have to actually live in Eastern Europe to play Eastern European sounds? Not Forty Thieves Orkestar, a...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2011
Stately Mansion
Stately is the word to describe the music on Kate Lissaeur’s third album, which features no less than 17 songs...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2013
Running Away With the Circus
The Trans-Siberian March Band's line-up is the expected Balkan spread of clarinets, trumpets, trombones, and alto saxophone, but with a...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: March/2017
Benin: Bariba Music
The Bariba number about 600,000, and live in the north-west Nigerian region of Borgou, around the banks of the Niger...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2013
Mayday
In the middle of this excellent album two songs exemplify its sophistication. In ‘The Factory Girl’, a woman rejects the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
