Reviews
Made by Human Hands
Grand Union have been making communal, culturally expansive and embracing music for four decades now, with a strong legacy of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2022
Italy: Music of the Albanians of Calabria
The outcome of Fabrice Contri’s fieldworks in northern Calabria between 2009 and 2010, this album features music of the Arbëreshë,...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2012
Réveteg
Classically-trained viola player Róbert Lakatos (not to be confused with Roby Lakatos) is a leading fiddler (prímas) on the Hungarian...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
137 Avenue Kaniama
Musician, poet and filmmaker Baloji was born to a Belgian father and Congolese mother in Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2019
Detached
For lovers of boundary-pushing music, a flute and a diatonic accordion may not seem an immediately thrilling prospect. Here, however,...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: April/2020
Instant
Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto
Given that for centuries in griot culture it was considered a solo instrument, the kora has in recent decades proved...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022
Old Tire Swingers
Aside from a Facebook page, on which they good-naturedly promote other bands playing good-time music in and around their hometown...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2013
Eu Preciso de um Liquidificador
With its musicality, playful melodies and wide mix of influences (samba, choro, pop and doo wop are all in the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Apr/May/2013
