Reviews
Flight Paths
Siskin Quartet are a melding together of two remarkable duos. English-born fiddler Bridget Marsden and accordionist Leif Ottosson – outstanding...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: January/February/2023
Crossroads Kenya: East African Benga and Rumba, 1980-1985
It's indicative of how the music of East Africa has been overshadowed by its West African cousin that none of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2022
Ora Doci Ora Margos
Who is Elida Almeida? Across 2015, many other music lovers will ask the same question. That is because this, the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2015
Mugham Souls
Gochag Askarov & Pierre de Trégomain
Gochag Askarov is a top singer of mugham, the sophisticated vocal tradition of Azerbaijan. Although recorded in concert in Baku's...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2017
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
Bhutan Himalaya: Folk Music from Bhutan
This album seems to hark back to earlier, more simple times. Bhutan, bordering India and Tibet, conjures up images of...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: May/2017
Salsa de la Buena!
Given the quality of the musicianship in evidence here, Toronto's salsa scene must be flourishing. No doubt conceived in the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2015
Dai Raft
When Afghan Hazara musician Hamid Sakhizada fled his country and moved to Norway in 2016, he found not only a...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: March/2020
Madíbá
It was always going to be a tough ask to follow up on Blick Bassy's seminal 2019 album 1958 (A...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2023
